Re: [Evolution-hackers] Account management and keyrings

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:24 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> Nope, go for it. It may also fix an issue with Birthday&Anniversaries
> calendar, when using authenticated addressbook, as right now there is no
> easy way to ask for a stored password for that book. Of course, there
> will be needed new API for book/cal backends to be able to ask for any
> password (on any ESource), not only during its "authenticate" signals.
> Even it's another story, please consider these things too.

Right, that was my intention with the new API.  Backends could look up
passwords for themselves and only emit "auth-required" signals if they
need input from the user.