Re: Removing gnome-keyring-manager from desktop distribution

["Adam Schreiber" <sadam clemson edu>]

On Dec 13, 2007 2:52 AM, Jeff Cai <Jeff Cai sun com> wrote:
> Will the gnome-keyrings library be removed from GNOME?

No, the gnome-keyring module provides the daemon that securely stores
and hands out the secrets stored in the key rings.

> Can Seahorse
> manage the keys and secrets that gnome-keyrings operates?

Yes, Stef just committed the final missing functionality of g-k-m.

Cheers,

Adam

>
> Jeff
>
>
> On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 23:20 +0000, Stef Walter wrote:
> > Seahorse now has surpassed the functionality of gnome-keyring-manager,
> > as far as managing one or more keyrings and the passwords contained in
> > them. It does things in a more simple manner, and hopefully more
> > understandable. Screenshots attached. [1]
> >
> > As was discussed before on this list, I'd suggest we remove
> > gnome-keyring-manager from the 'desktop' distribution for 2.22. The tool
> > may have uses elsewhere, but I'm not sure we need to duplicate this
> > functionality in GNOME.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Stef Walter
> >
> > [1] Please feel free to file bugs if you see usability or other issues.
> >
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