Re: cleaning up keyrings

["Havoc Pennington" <hp redhat com>]

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On 8/28/07, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 8/28/07, Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com> wrote:
> > So what you're really talking about is storing the concept of an
> > 'account' with all related information in gnome-keyring.
>
> Well, maybe. I was just thinking about that a bit and it seems
> probably too ambitious.
>
> I'd be happy to start if apps could just ask for a list of
> username/password pairs by category, like "XMPP", "Google", "Flickr",
> or whatever. I think that's enough for apps to do something reasonably
> nice. Not sure though.
>
> > So far the
> > focus has been on passwords and secrets. This is certainly possible, but
> > like you said needs a solid spec to get anywhere. The way current
> > applications store information in the keyrings just isn't structured
> > enough.
>
> Exactly, yep. I can write some simple spec up, but first I want to
> understand all the current thinking (so far it sounds like there's a
> pretty blank slate for spec'ing this out)
>
> Havoc
>