Re: seahorse refactoring

[Adam Schreiber <sadam clemson edu>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Stef <stef-list memberwebs com> wrote:
> I hope it's okay that I CC this to seahorse-list.
>
> Adam Schreiber wrote:
>> Are there more changes to seahorse in the vein of your refactoring
>> that are yet to be made that will fix the brokenness of gkr,
>> libcryptui, dbus before we hit the code freeze?  I've started to look
>> at fixing the non-loading of gkr items and preferences as well as the
>> lack of proper signing keys returned in the libcryptui signer widget
>> but it looks like the refactoring is incomplete/you have more ideas
>> for making seahorse extensible that haven't landed yet and don't want
>> to step on your toes.
>
> I've been out of touch, trying to get all the major changes done before
> UI freeze next week.
>
> I've committed the last of the major library changes to gnome-keyring.
>
> Recently a library 'gcr' came about in gnome-keyring as part of the
> refactoring there. It contains APIs for parsing and importing of
> certificates/key formats, and various GTK GUI elements. It seems the
> natural place for the recent certificate additions that I was trying to
> cram into libcryptui, but didn't really fit.
>
> So I've added the certificate UI bits to gcr, and if you're in
> agreement, I'll make seahorse use those for displaying certificates. I'd
> then remove them from libcryptui. So in the end libcryptui will look
> very similar to when this cycle started.
>
> Once this is done, I'll helping out with bug fixes and regressions,
> documentation etc...

That sounds fine to me.  What keys other than the pkcs11/x509 certs
does gcr parse?

Cheers,

Adam