Re: Removing gnome-keyring-manager from desktop distribution

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I'm not going do discuss the relative merits of seahorse vs.
> gnome-keyring-manager,
> but there is one thing that I cannot let uncommented in the seahorse ui. On the
> "Passphrase Cache" there is a section that warns me about the fact
> that a certain
> seahorse-agent is not running. It shows a button (or rather a label
> that turns into a button on mouse-over) for starting said
> seahorse-agent. So far so good (although the button would be better as
> a regular button).
> 
> But when I click on it, it adds more text about how I should add
> seahorse-agent to the session to avoid starting it manually in the
> future, and changes the button to one that launches gnome-session.
> This is seriously wrong, in my opinion. It feels like the computer is
> asking me to do something that it could have just as well done itself.
> 
> I'd propose to a) make ssh-agent register with the session manager itself
> or b) install an autostart file for it,
> or c) add a check box next to the button
>    [ ] do this automatically in the future

Yes this is kludgy and junky.

In fact this whole bit of the seahorse-agent (starting whenever we want
to) needs to go away. It's incompatible with newer versions of GPG, and
is an major hack. One of my initial contributions to GNOME that makes me
want to bury my head in shame :(

Cheers,
Stef Walter