Re: [Evolution] why Evolution email application unnecessarily prompts for passwords on random occasions.

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 12:31 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> The evolution(-data-server) doesn't use gnome-keyring directly, I do
> not know since which version, but definitely in 3.10.x and later. It
> uses libsecret library for password management. That library hides
> the
> implementation details for the users of it, thus it can be that the
> password are stored in the gnome-keyring when the application runs
> under GNOME environment, but the passwords can be stored in the
> KWallet
> (it's called this way, if I recall correctly), in the KDE
> environment,
> and so on. I do not say it's currently the case, but the idea of the
> libsecret library is just this (apart of other things).

That's good to know. I'm afraid Evo under KDE still uses gnome-keyring
and not Kwallet, but at least it's something that could conceivably
change.

IMHO the whole mess of competing keyring/wallet systems should be
cleaned up. They are an important foundation for desktop systems and
there's no reason I can see why all the main DE groups couldn't just
agree on one of them, especially as they work over Dbus, which is a
standard.

poc