[kdepim-users] annoying wallet -> problem solved , thanx guys :)

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 21 February 2008 02:31:43 Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 04:41, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2008 06:57:16 O. Sinclair wrote:
> > > Well, I meant this to the list and not to you as a person, got the
> > > reply-to wrong. But I have yet to come across a distro of KDE that do
> > > not use Kwallet by default, not meaning that you can not disable it.
> > > And if KDE use it then Kmail will use it unless told not to.
> > >
> > > As I said - I did not follow the thread from start and it has little to
> > > do with how "I like it". I sometimes find Kwallet good, sometimes not.
> > > But the concept is not overly irritating if I get to put my password
> > > once, no more than giving the sudo/admin password.
> >
> > This is simply not true.  On the first instance after an install that the
> > use of kwallet is applicable you are asked if you want to use it.  If you
> > refuse at that time it is not used.  None-the-less, it is entirely
> > configurable to do whatever you wish, including disabling it.  That is
> > your choice.
>
> It's not as simple as that.  I do a fresh install of Slackware.  The first
> time I fire up kmail I have some configuring to do,  plugging in the info
> for the email servers the software needs to access,  AND THE PASSWORDS. 
> The first time it attempts to do so it tries to access the stupid wallet
> thingy anyway,  and I have to go through more crap to get it to not try and
> do so. This didn't used to be an issue to deal with -- now it is. 
> Something that worked a certain way before doesn't work that way any more
> -- therefore _they broke it_ when this stuff was added.  A simple "this
> feature is available to you now and it wasn't before,  do you want to use
> it?" with a yes/no option might have been nice but that choice wasn't what
> was presented.
>
> > I merely ask that you consider the security implications, and that you
> > (not you personally) stop the incessant nagging because you (some people)
> > are too lazy to tell it what they want.
>
> Telling it no and then having the software nag you to use it anyway isn't
> much fun either.

I know nothing of Slackware.  This is certainly not the behaviour in Mandriva, 
Fedora or CentOS.  Perhaps you should be asking the Slackware people.  It's 
clearly not a kde issue, or all distros would have the same behaviour.

Anne
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