KIO::PasswordDialog and the keep checkbox

[Dawit A.]

Hi Marc,

If I understand you correctly, what you are missing is the ability to 
determine the original value of that checkbox right ?  This way you can 
restore or show what the user has chosen previously.  If so then I think you 
completely misunderstood, justifiably so I might add, how the "Keep Password" 
term was intended to be used in the first place. :)  The "Keep Password" 
setting was originally intended to indicate "Keep Password for entire KDE 
session" for the kdesu daemon.  In my attempt to solve the "annoying password 
prompt for every single action problem for the 2.0 release", I extended this 
widget (which was originally designed to serve kdesu) to provide prompt for 
the io-slaves as well. I never intended it nor assumed that it would be used 
as a generic password prompt which is now showing the problems with the  
previous choices.

Anyways, AFAIR what your propose will break the original user of this dialog 
which is kdesu.  It uses the keep password as it is now and it even hardcodes 
how the value of that checkbox is set by reading the global configuration 
file.  In case you are wondering this is set from the "Remember password" 
option from the Security & Privacy ->Password module in the control center.  
>From kdesu's point of view only the user determines whether this flag is set 
or not.  This is not ideal from other applications point of course and there 
is a couple of ways this issue can be addressed in a BIC manner without the 
need to mess with all the other things you mentioned. I do not know doing so 
would be advisable at this point however since we are in a freeze. How about 
post 3.1 ?  

Regards,
Dawit A.