kwallet and QCA

[Robert Knight]


> This is a common mistake, intriguingly often happening in discussions around 
> free software desktop implementation sharing.

Do you mean that it is not a good idea or that it should have been done earlier?

Regards,
Robert.

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 20:09 +0200, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 June 2008, Robert Knight wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This doesn't answer your question directly but something that came up at
> > FOSSCamp during the KDE/Gnome collaboration session and which also
> > relates to upcoming specifications in Ubuntu and Fedora for
> > single-sign-on* is that it would be useful to share the password
> > management storage, API and/or code between gnome, KDE, Firefox,
> > OpenOffice etc.  I don't know whether OpenSuSE are planning anything in
> > this area.
> >
> > Since this is not particularly exciting stuff I think it was suggested
> > that a single shared library could be used to do all of the backend
> > work.
> 
> This is a common mistake, intriguingly often happening in discussions around 
> free software desktop implementation sharing.
> 
> In any case the single-sign-on will be implemented through a desktop 
> service, , e.g. gnome-key-ring, kwallet module in kded, etc., which means it 
> will have to have a well defined IPC API anyway, most likely D-Bus 
> interfaces.
> 
> Which also has the nice side effect that it can be implemented right away, 
> i.e. as a second interface to already existing key storage solutions without 
> needing to simultaniously transition all applications using the desktop 
> specific interface right now.
> 
> > Unfortunately since QCA depends on Qt, I guess that might be a hard-sell
> > as one of the dependencies.
> 
> It would be a dependency of one service implementation, an implementation 
> detail, so definitely not a problem in this context.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>