On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 18:47 -0600, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 19:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > As has been commented several times on this list over the years, none of
> > KDE knows anything about the Gnome keyring. KDE has its own entirely
> > separate keystore, the KDE Wallet.
> > 
> > The existence of two subsystems with essentially the same functionality
> > but which don't communicate with each other is a constant irritant.
> > Every time I start Evo in a new login session I have to re-type my login
> > password *and* my Gnome keyring password (it used to be just one of
> > them, now it's both; I guess that's progress ...). There's some talk of
> > a new KDE-side package which will address this but I don't know the
> > details.
> 
> Stef Walter has assured me he's working on a replacement for GNOME
> Keyring called GSecret that uses the same freedesktop.org standard D-Bus
> API as KDE Wallet, so theoretically you can mix-and-match the KDE Wallet
> service with the GSecret client library or vice versa.
> 
> http://stef.thewalter.net/2011/09/introspecting-certificates.html?showComment=1317622996198#c5364051270673968069
> 
> As soon the GSecret library is available, ditching GNOME Keyring will be
> a top priority for me.  GNOME Keyring is as much of a pain to program to
> as it is to use outside of GNOME.

Sounds good. I was actually thinking of a different package which is
being pushed for KDE 4.8: http://www.ohloh.net/p/ksecretsservice Since
this is also D-Bus based, we can cross our fingers and hope for
compatibility.

poc

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