SDDM and gnome-keyring

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

Those of us who use some Gnome applications such as Evolution are
occasionally flummoxed by the never-ending story of Kwallet vs
gnome-keyring. I suspect quite a few of us simply turn Kwallet off in
order to simplify things. I did this a few releases back and everything
worked, however with F21 I again have to input a password on every new
session of Evolution, because gnome-keyring is not running as part of
the login process.

Can anyone enlighten me as to how to modify /etc/pam.d/sddm to get this
working? There are a few recommendations out there but some are for KDM
and don't always agree even on that.

Looking ahead, this and similar problems have been cropped up for many a
long year now, and someone always mentions that efforts are under way to
resolve them (1), but nothing seems to happen - that Web page seems to
be moribund and the link to the proposed spec is dead. What are the
prospects of this incompatibility being settled? Seriously, aside from
the UI, is there any fundamental difference between the goals of Kwallet
and Gnome-keyring? Why does a DE even have to deal with managing
keyrings or wallets anyway? Shouldn't this be a lower-level service and
the DE just provide a UI for it?

poc

1. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec/