Re: Export Keyrings and FF password storage

[Adam Schreiber <sadam gnome org>]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Benedict Stein
<benedict stein googlemail com> wrote:
> I found my saved keyrings in ~/gnome2/keyrings/<name of the keyring>
> and may blog about it after Xmas. As this file already exsist wouldn't it be easy to activate the "export" button in the GUI linked to this file ?

Yes and no.  Yes, it's relatively easy, but when we "broke" things, we
decided we wanted to add restore functionality and think through what
form we wanted the backups to take before reinstating it.  This has
become more complicated as we've added support for managing more kinds
of secrets.

> By the way as I'm interested to get into coding I'd like to know which language you use for the seahorse project. Is it C - like in most other Gnome projects?

Yes, C is the language of choice.  We've toyed around with vala in the
past and libcryptui is primed for introspection, so perhaps in
seahorse-plugins we'll look at python or javascript plugins to parts
of Gnome's infrastructure.

> Concerning Epiphany implementation and FF, I know concerning Gnome it's epiphany which has to be supported but if you take a look on the market, which Distro does actually use Epiphany ? Usually I would say Debian (as Ubuntu comes with FF by default), but even at our schools Debian LTSP system we're all using Iceweasel (which is free FF) for compability reasons.
>
> So in my opnion it would be a very nice step not to implement epiphany onyl, but also create something like a FF plugin to make FF working with seahorse.

I have programmed in C++, but have no interest in digging into the FF
internals/plugin architecture.  I would be happy to accept/mentor
attempts though.

Cheers,

Adam