On Thu 30 June 2011 19:15:33 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 14:57 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > > On Wed 29 June 2011 15:08:31 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > <rant> > > > As I've said before, this whole separation of wallet functions between > > > two different systems that don't talk to each other is stupid and > > > counter-productive. It's as if each DE used its own version of libc. > > > There's no basic technical justification for this. Each DE wants its own > > > user interface? Fine, but they do essentially the same things, so why > > > can't they both use a common library for keystore functionality? The > > > whole purpose of a wallet is to make things easier for the user. As > > > things stand, that only happens if the user stays with the apps from one > > > specific DE and never uses those of the other. Does anyone out there > > > actually do that? > > > </rant> > > > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec Wanna > > help fix that? ;) > > All I can say is it's depressing. A distinct impression of a project > going nowhere. Very little mailing list traffic (and that mostly from > one or two posters), a "recent changes" page that consists mostly of > spam, you get the picture. No doubt the handful of people working on it > are doing what they can, but after three years or so the spec is still > at draft 0.1, the last code commit was over 6 months ago and the > previous one 3 months before that, and nothing usable has found its way > to a leading distro. That suggests either that a) the project is poorly > focused, or b) too few people in the KDE and Gnome projects believe in > it (NIH syndrome? who knows?), or c) both. > > poc > Or that there is a lack of developers to work on it. KWallet is a small project, as is gnome-keyring, and both are volunteer efforts. I'm sure they'd love any help. -- Ryan Rix -- http://rix.si == OpenSource.com: Where Open Source Happens! == _ \/"/_ All Hail the Beefy Miracle! /_/ \ \
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