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

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 06:23, David Pashley wrote:
> 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.

   Have you seen KWallet? :-)

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George Staikos
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