Accounts handling in Plasma 5

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Wed Aug 27 15:16:53 UTC 2014


On Wednesday 27 August 2014 16:47:32 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>
> 
> wrote:
> > What I mean is that when someone sets up IM accounts in e.g. GNOME's GUI
> > for
> > the Accounts-SSO framework, would they work in KTp?
> 
> I'm not sure how exactly does Gnome store the IM accounts credentials, in
> theory it could work, but I'm unsure. Also I'm fairly certain that Gnome is
> using their gnome-keyring to store the passwords (as a SSO backend), so
> without their keyring it won't work.

Yeah but on Gnome, gnome-keyring is usually present, isn't it? To be clear: 
I'm not talking about using Gnome technology in Plasma, but about KTp 
integrating in other DEs that use Accounts-SSO. I know it's not our focus, but 
it would still be nice if it worked seamlessly due to a shared framework.


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