Re: Proposed module: seahorse

["Adam Schreiber" <sadam clemson edu>]

On 1/9/07, John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
> <confused questions>
> I read the FAQ and I dont know how seahorse relates to
> gnome-keyring-manager?. One is keys and the other is keyrings.

It's true that it's not that clear what the difference is.  In
general, seahorse wraps multiple low level libraries/programs that
relate to encryption and authentication: gpg, ssh, gnome-keyring.
gnome-keyring-manager only wraps gnome-keyring.

> Are two
> applications needed considering keys, encryption, keyrings and the
> whole idea of it is confusing?
> </confused question>

Eventually not.  In fact in response to a feature request to add a way
to change the "master password" of a gnome-keyring we've started to
wrap more of the functionality exposed [1].  If implementing all the
functionality of gnome-keyring is completed, gnome-keyring-manager
would be redundant.

Cheers,

Adam

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356575