Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Philip Martin wrote: >> [...] Subversion records whether a particular provider >> was used to store a particular password. The KDE provider will only >> prompt to open the wallet when the auth data indicates that KDE was used >> to store a particular password. The GNOME provider prompts to unlock the >> keyring whenever any password is requested, before checking the auth >> data to see if this particular password was stored in the keyring. >> >> I don't see any advantage to the GNOME behaviour, it looks more like a >> bug than a feature. > > That behaviour is defensible. "Why should any random app I run know > what passwords my keyring stores?"
Hi Daniel. I don't follow what you mean. The 'providers' that Philip refers to are bits of Subversion code, not the KDE/Gnome APIs themselves. - Julian
