Re: Removing gnome-keyring-manager from desktop distribution

[Jeff Cai <Jeff Cai Sun COM>]

I saw the gnom-keyrings is an optional dependency of Seahorse. If 
Seahorse needs to support functionality of g-k-m, does that mean 
Seahorse needs to depend on gnome-keyrings?

Jeff

Adam Schreiber 写道:
> 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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