As posted here previously, KDE and GNOME developers are working together on a new DBus based API for storing secrets [1].
I'm working hard to implement this new API in gnome-keyring, while we're finalizing it. It contains many beneficial changes, and lessons learned. You can join in on the discussion on the XDG mailing list [2]. It's very likely that there will be a new client side library which wraps this DBus API. The current libgnome-keyring.so will be probably be replaced by compatibility shims. These shims would be distributed separately from the gnome-keyring distribution. This library would eventually be deprecated. The current (undocumented, unstable, private) binary protocol that gnome-keyring-daemon and libgnome-keyring speak to each other will go away. It's grown crufty and hard to extend. The DBus based secrets API is the future. Migration Effort: * Most normal applications using libgnome-keyring will have almost no immediate migration needed, due to the compatibility shims. * Module packagers may need to update dependencies. * Patches will be contributed to seahorse, gnome-session, gnome-power-manager and any others that interact with gnome-keyring in unique ways. * Parts of java-gnome and gnome-sharp and any others who talk to gnome-keyring using the unsupported private binary protocol will need to be rewritten by their developers. We're working hard to finish all this by 2.30 (ie: 3.0), but that's pretty soon. It'd be awesome if 2.30 was a 9 month cycle. Cheers, Stef [1] http://www.gnome.org/~stefw/secrets/html/ [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/authentication _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
