Re: [Evolution-hackers] GSettings Hackfest + Account Storage
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:15 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote: But on the third hand, :) GNOME has an increasingly beautiful¹ passwords and account management interface in the Passwords and Encryption Keys tool provided by Seahorse; my understanding is that the APIs underneath it are mature too, though I can't speak to that. Right, I should have clarified that I wasn't speaking of password information. That certainly belongs in a secure keyring. What I was suggesting we store in key files was account options -- username, host and port information along with all the knobs and switches you see in the Account Editor, Calendar Properties, Address Book Properties, etc. I'll post a more fleshed out proposal to the wiki once I learn more about the GSettings key file backend. Matthew Barnes ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] GSettings Hackfest + Account Storage
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 15:21 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote: A secondary goal is to find a saner solution for account settings storage. I think there's universal agreement that our XML blobs are an abuse of GConf and need to die, but I'm torn on which direction to take. One the one hand, GSettings On the other hand, users... But on the third hand, :) GNOME has an increasingly beautiful¹ passwords and account management interface in the Passwords and Encryption Keys tool provided by Seahorse; my understanding is that the APIs underneath it are mature too, though I can't speak to that. Could that store be of any help? Irrespective of the I want to move my .evolution with cp [and isn't that what backup/restore is actually for?], surely it's better to centralize credential management in the place that other GNOME apps are using. AfC Sydney ¹ beautiful, as defined by the number of apps (today I'm pleased about Epiphany) storing their username/password credentials there. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
