Re: [Evolution-hackers] Since evolution-alarm-notify asks for passwords

[Chenthill <pchenthill gmail com>]

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 08:24 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> 	Hi,
> I cannot find the thread where this was discussed, I'm sorry, but after
> few days I found why this behaviour is pretty bad and why the
> evolution-alarm-notify didn't ask for passwords. My usecase is pretty
> simple, and I believe there are many corporate users with the same
> environment: I have entered few calendars which are accessed only when
> I'm connected to company vpn, unless they fail. When I login I do not
> have the vpn running, thus I'm asked for my passwords, thus I connect to
> vpn and then enter it (it's not prefilled, because it's not a reprompt,
> though maybe some little change on evolution-mapi could be done - these
> are evo-mapi calendars).
> 
> My question is whether there can be done any better way of coping with
> this, because having the password prompts (there are two pilled,
> actually) after each and every login is just a bad experience, from my
> point of view.
Would it not be possible to store the password in gnome-keyring and be
shared. The other providers work this way, alarm-daemon would start the
authenticated calendars if it finds that the passwords is stored
gnome-keyring. It would also check whether the password can be retrieved
between intervals AFAICR.

In case a calendar is marked for alarms and if alarm-daemon was not able
to retrieve the password, would it be a good idea to show a small
warning icon in the panel, which could indicate the issue and mention
that evolution needs to be started in order to retrieve the password ?
Also inform the user that the password needs to be remembered for
alarm-daemon to work fine.


> 	Bye,
> 	Milan
> 
> P.S.: Most likely unrelated, but I see I'm asked for Tasks and Notes
> passwords, at least based on the prompts, which should not be needed in
> the evolution-alarm-notify, because evolution doesn't support alarms on
> these.
I dont think the earlier behaviour used to be like this. This should be
a bug introduced at some state IMHO.

- Chenthill.
> 
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