KF5 kwallet, kwalletd and wallet manager questions

Kevin Krammer krammer at kde.org
Sat Aug 24 12:32:51 UTC 2013


On Saturday, 2013-08-24, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> El Dissabte, 24 d'agost de 2013, a les 12:31:20, Valentin Rusu va escriure:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Now that frameworks splitting is almost done ;-) with some people even
> > running KF5-based sessions on their systems, I'd like to plan kwallet
> > porting and integration. BTW, I'd like also to announce that I agreed
> > with Michael Leupold to take over the maintainership of KWallet and I'm
> > now committed to do that. I also plan to add new features to kwallet, as
> > some of you may remember from our Randa discussions. But I'll make
> > another announcement(s) regarding these new features and ksecretsservice.
> > 
> > Here are my questions about kwallet in KF5:
> > * what tier will kwallet end-in? Note that kwallet.h is included only by
> > khtml, whose tier is not yet defined
> > 
> > * AFAIK, frameworks should be independent and self-contained. kwallet
> > depends on kde-runtime/kwalletd. This component should be detached from
> > kde-runtime sources and attached inside kwallet/src/kwalletd, preserving
> > history if possible. I can handle this task if that's OK for you (Aron,
> > David, Kevin?)
> 
> This makes sense and AFAIK is what is intended with frameworks, i.e. if a
> lib needs a binary, that binary and the lib should be shipped together

One thing that could be put into consideration is whether the library/API 
would work with any SecretService implementation or require kwalletd 
specifically.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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