Re: ACAP and password dialogs

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Of course .. if somebody wants to work on this password dialog stuff,
tell me (so that we are certain that your work on this is in sync with
what will be needed for the ACAP support).

My ETA for getting this refactoring done is either next weekend or next
week. It's urgent imo to get this right, because it involves a bigger
API change that I would like to have in a first release rather than in a
second one.


On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 22:38 +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Because I will be implementing a libtinymail-acap soon, I need an
> interface for password dialogs.
> 
> I'm not kidding no: I don't want the libtinymail-acap implementation to
> strictly depend on gtk+, yet I need a password dialog to allow the user
> to enter the acap password (and/or to store it in a password manager).
> 
> Therefore I will specify a TnyPasswordDialog in libtinymailui, let
> libtinymail-acap depend on libtinymailui and I will more or less require
> E-mail user agent developers to implement the interface correctly.
> 
> I will move that code from the platform specific libraries into
> libtinymail-gtk and I will most likely create a new static library
> called libtinymail-gnomekeyring.a or something, libtinymail-gtk will
> statically link with that one of GNOME is enabled).
> 
> TnyAcapAccountStore will, just like any other account store, implement a
> "set_password_dialog"-like property. This will be a major API change on
> TnyAccountStore that must be implemented.
> 
> If somebody has objections: quick :-).
> 
> There's some ACAP skeleton/proxy code here already:
> http://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/libtinymail-acap/
> 
> 
> 
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