Firefox: KDE Wallet password integration

[Ryan Rix]

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. 

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