Re: [Evolution] evolutio forgets my passwords every start from Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:39:53 -0800

[Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com>]

On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 19:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> As has been commented several times on this list over the years, none of
> KDE knows anything about the Gnome keyring. KDE has its own entirely
> separate keystore, the KDE Wallet.
>
> The existence of two subsystems with essentially the same functionality
> but which don't communicate with each other is a constant irritant.
> Every time I start Evo in a new login session I have to re-type my login
> password *and* my Gnome keyring password (it used to be just one of
> them, now it's both; I guess that's progress ...). There's some talk of
> a new KDE-side package which will address this but I don't know the
> details.

Stef Walter has assured me he's working on a replacement for GNOME
Keyring called GSecret that uses the same freedesktop.org standard D-Bus
API as KDE Wallet, so theoretically you can mix-and-match the KDE Wallet
service with the GSecret client library or vice versa.

http://stef.thewalter.net/2011/09/introspecting-certificates.html?showComment=1317622996198#c5364051270673968069

As soon the GSecret library is available, ditching GNOME Keyring will be
a top priority for me.  GNOME Keyring is as much of a pain to program to
as it is to use outside of GNOME.

Matthew Barnes