kwalletmanager5 cannot access kwallet4 kwl files

[Martin Steigerwald]

On Samstag, 26. März 2016 13:24:16 CET Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> I am mostly a user of Debian, having help here and there with bug triaging
> and testing, and although I am fully aware of the situation and just
> accepted it as is, other users are not and IMHO rightfully are upset about
> it. I didn´t report anything, cause I migrated to kwallet5 using the
> migration routine and was done with it and had lots of other stuff
> important to me.
> 
> The basic thing is:
> 
> kwalletmanager5 cannot access old kwallet4 files, yet Konqueror as of 15.12
> still is Qt4 based. Debian only ships kwalletmanager5 so no way to access
> passwords stored with Konqueror after the initial migration to the new
> kwallet.
> 
> What would be your recommendations for distros to handle this situation?
> 
> I see several options:
> 
> 1) Fix that kwallet5 cannot import kwallet4 files. Would be an upstream task
> if you ask me.
> 
> 2) Provide kwalletmanager4 packages alongside kwalletmanager5 packages for
> the time being.
> 
> 3) Put a bit fat warning readme in front of the user not to use Konqueror
> for any serious webbrowsing anyway (as its unsupportable security wise at
> the moment no matter whether using KHTML or WebKit as engine). Which is
> what I decided how to handle it, I do not use Konqueror for any login based
> webbrowsing anymore.
> 
> 4) Remove Konqueror from Plasma 5 as it appears to be basically unmaintained
> for years. And is not safe for webbrowsing. Thats at least the impression I
> got. It would be really, really sad to see this option being chosen, cause…
> there is no good alternative. Firefox is too heavy and lacks in
> integration, Chromium doesn´t integrate, only konqueror starts up nice and
> fast and fully fits into Plasma look and feel. Yet, it might be the most
> honest decision unless one sees an option for a supportable web engine that
> Konqueror could use.

I forgot an obvious option for upstream here:

5) Port Konqueror to Qt 5 / KF 5 / Plasma 5 and maintain it.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin