Re: cleaning up keyrings

["Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

On 8/28/07, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> I'm not sure anyone's really thought of the conventions behind using
> each field for something specific. You'd need to ask Alex, he wrote it
> after all :)

I am hoping he'll read the thread ;-)

> > Ideally I think we'd allow Gossip and Pidgin to ask something like
> > "give me all XMPP accounts on the keyring," I guess that would use the
> > "protocol" field? Would the results be sane if Gossip or Pidgin
> > "merged" this resulting list of accounts with their own app-specific
> > list of accounts? How should that merge be done? What if you delete an
> > account in the app's account manager screen?
>
> Apps would need to agree on what/how to store it. I guess that right
> now, it's good enough if the app that inserted the details can read it
> back.

That's the point though, I don't think it's really a good situation;
if I create a guest account right now, I have to log in to Google
three times to get it all going, and that's just one example.

Without sharing between apps gnome-keyring doesn't do a whole lot
other than throw up allow-or-deny dialogs like Vista. ;-)

The ideal is that one local login and one online.gnome.org login is
all you need, then your keyring is downloaded and has all other
logins. (yes, it will be optional, to head off the inevitable
followup)

> > A specific use-case is that if I've already logged in to Google in
> > either Firefox or BigBoard, I think Gossip or Pidgin when first
> > started up should default to knowing that same account info.
>
> How? I personally log in to google with my personal mail address, don't
> have any GMail account, and have a @googlemail.com Jabber address. I'm
> not sure how apps are supposed to link all those (and they'd need access
> to the cookies, another thing to share, to be able to screenscrape).

It won't work if you have a setup like that, or would require more
effort to make work. But for example it's easy to make work for my
Google setup which is all @gmail.com

This isn't something that has to work every time or in every corner
case to be useful. It's just something that's nice to do whenever we
can.

Havoc