On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Genes MailLists <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is exactly why (half) solutions like this are really bad. A well > designed service should be a back end that works everywhere - and allow > front ends to be built (or shared) for different DE's. > > In this regard, the wallet managers are a failure. > > Network manager does it right - a daemon back end and a set of GUI's > to partner with it. A decent key manager would be similar. There'd be a > single API that apps can use - and the GUI's for user use the same API > to communicate with it. > > The idea of having a tool for a common task is a good one - the design > implementation is flawed and suffers from NIH. > > My view of course :-) Similar criticism could be applied to chrome and its use of gnome keyring or kwallet to store passwords? (I know that chrome is proprietary - but presume that same applies to chromium?) How many people had chrome working fine in their gnome desktop - and then moved the profile to another machine with a KDE DE and then find no passwords were present any more - there is a method to pull them across but it would be oh so nice if copying the profile alone was sufficient in this situation! -- mike c -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
