KIO->GnomeVFS bridge started (looking for a Common-VFS)

[David Pashley]

On Dec 20, 2004 at 22:37, nf praised the llamas by saying:
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 20:26, George Staikos wrote:
> 
> Good point. Storing passwords in a desktop neutral way is definitely a
> problem for a "Common VFS". Again there are two incompatible libraries
> (KWallet and gnome-keyring) for the same purpose - instead of a single
> library and two front-ends. Same story... ;-)
> 
> I'll have a look how the APIs compare as soon i have time...
> 
Of course the nicest solution would be a dbus/dcop service for storing
passwords. How I see such a service working would be:

1. Application needs a password
2. It asks the password storage daemon using dbus/dcop
3. The daemon looks for the password, if it can't find it, it pops up a
   dialog box asking the user for the password
4. The daemon returns the password to the original asking application

Using this, no application other than the password daemon would prompt
the user for a password, be it a web browser, a GPG frontend or a remote
printer queue. This would be useful beyond KDE or GNOME. 



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