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 _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
