Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Audioscrobbler username and password

["Sam Morris" <sam robots org uk>]

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:54:00 +0100, Peter Oliver wrote:
> Lots of Gnome music players now have Audioscrobbler plugins, and there's 
> now a Gnome frontend to Last.fm radio, Last Exit.  I find myself with the 
> following pairs of GConf keys all holding exactly the same data:
> 
> [snip]
>
> Is there any benefit to storing these seperately?  As far as I can see, it 
> just means that the user has to fill in the details multiple times.  To 
> me, Audioscrobbler username and password feels like the username and 
> password for a HTTP proxy; you should be able to set them once and have 
> all interested apps use the same values.
> 
> Would it be possible to agree on a common naming for these keys that could 
> be used by all Gnome Audioscrobbler apps?  For example:
> 
> /system/audioscrobbler/username
> /system/audioscrobbler/password

This seems like a good use for gnome-keyring.

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