(I resend this email because the first one awaits moderator approval since a few days, because I was not subscribed to the list when I sent it)
Hi, we at Tails (tails.boum.org) are currently working on adding support for TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt volumes in udisks and GNOME Disks (see also the corresponding thread on devkit-devel [1]). A team mate will also send an email regarding this to GNOME UX people in the next days, so you won't see any code from us implementing a GUI design that they have not accepted. I'm stating this so you can ignore the GUI design implications for now. Beside other things, we also want to support unlocking via the GVfs udisks volume monitor, which automatically prompts the user to unlock encrypted volumes once they are plugged in. In order to fully support TC/VC volumes, the unlock dialog shown to the user must allow specifying several other options than only the password, namely: keyfiles required to unlock the file, a PIM value [2], and whether the volume is a hidden volume, a system volume, or neither. The work on this part turned out more complicated than we anticipated. The unlock dialog is not created by the GVfs monitor directly, but by GtkMountOperation, which in turn calls org.gtk.MountOperationHandler.AskPassword, which is part of GNOME Shell, and which then finally creates the ShellMountPasswordDialog (please correct me if I got anything wrong). This means that we will have to patch a lot more, and more low-level GNOME components than we anticipated, and we would like to ask for advice on what the best way to solve this would be. The only way I see is to extend GtkMountOperation (and GMountOperation) by fields for the additional options, and create new flags in GAskPasswordFlags, which can be passed down from GVfs to ShellMountPasswordDialog. This could be a single "VeraCrypt-mode" flag, or a separate flag for each of the required options I listed above. Do you see a better way? Cheers! [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2017-November/001800.html [2] https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=personal%20iterations%20multiplier%20%28pim%29 _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list