On Tuesday 12 May 2009 16:10:19 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: > > I am aware of 2 projects trying to solve that issue: > > http://alumnit.ca/wiki/index.php?page=UniConf > > http://www.libelektra.org/Main_Page > > Those are configuration frameworks, not password stores. They aren't > designed to hold passwords in a secure way (encrypted, with the possibility > to use a passphrase for true encryption (without a passphrase, it's trivial > to reverse the obfuscation)) like KWallet and gnome-keyring are. > > And adding yet another framework doesn't solve the problem of there being 2 > competing frameworks (KConfig vs. GConf for configuration, KWallet vs. > gnome-keyring for password stores) at all, it makes it worse. See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16581 There's some ongoing work on cross desktop framework lead by KWallet maintainer and Gnome keyring guys. I don't like some of "all around" DBUS *Kits but for passwords storage I think it's very useful - especial for cross desktop applications like Arora browser (I know, you can respond: Arora should be KDE application and problem is solved but... :D) Jaroslav > Kevin Kofler -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Associate Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
