Re: Splitting seahorse into seahorse/seahorse-plugins

[Stef Walter <stef memberwebs com>]

Adam Schreiber wrote:
> I'm not entirely sure what this gets us, but maybe it could be the
> impetus for breaking out a more public facing section of interfaces
> from libseahorse that could be used in cases where gpgme is complex
> and the DBus interface is too simplistic.  This would also probably
> require the full implementation of a proper gpg-agent in gnome-keyring
> similarly to what you mentioned in your email to d-d-l.

I find myself asking (myself) why we can't use the gpg-agent from GPG.
In the case of the SSH support in gnome-keyring that's very useful
because the actual encryption keys are stored by gnome-keyring.

However in the case of a GPG agent it's almost certain that GPG will
always store the keys. We could simply make a prompt or 'ask' program
(what's the actual lingo here?) which is used by the real gpg-agent. The
'ask' program would implement the option to store passwords in the
user's gnome-keyring.

Historically, the only option that could not be implemented in this
manner is the listing of the cached keys in the panel or some such.

Cheers,
Stef Walter