A Software Center for Fedora? [ somewhat OT ]

[Rex Dieter]

Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 12:04 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> On 05/23/2013 12:00 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 14:40 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> >> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan
>> >> <jonrysh at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> >>          On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 18:58 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
>> >>          > On 18 May 2013 18:27, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> >>          > > Any GNOME application is pretty much the same as any GTK
>> >>          > > application
>> >>          >
>> >>          > Agreed. gnome-software just requires gtk3-devel at the
>> >>          > moment so it'll work fine in LXDE/XFCE and will work fine
>> >>          > in KDE if looking a little foreign.
>> >>
>> >>          If only.  I recently spent about a day figuring out why
>> >>          evolution
>> >>          wouldn't send emails on a KDE desktop.  The reason is a
>> >>          disagreement
>> >>          between evolution, gnome-keyring, and the KDE infrastructure.
>> >>           I have a workaround but no fix.
>> >>
>> >> Do file a bug report
>> >
>> > Where should I file it: evolution bugzilla, gnome keyring bugzilla,
>> > general KDE bugzilla, general Gnome bugzilla?  I know developers frown
>> > on filing bug reports in more than one place.  (Please excuse the late
>> > reply.)
>> 
>> Hard to say without you giving details about what your workaround was.
>> 
>> In my experience,
>> gnome developers generally use upstream bugzilla almost exclusively
>> 
>> fedora kde-sig usually recommends:
>> * if you think it a distro-specific issue, use bugzilla.redhat.com
>> * if you think it an upstream issue, use bugs.kde.org
>> * and if in doubt, try distro/downstream bugzilla first.
> 
> None of your suggestions seems exactly appropriate.
> 
> The workaround is simply to autostart seahorse at the beginning of each
> session, double click on its Login padlock icon, and enter my login
> password.  Having done this, evolution can get the password for the smtp
> server from the keyring.
> 
> Under Gnome (as I remember it) the Login keyring is automatically
> enabled at login time.  In the past (before Fedora-18, I think), when I
> attempted to send the first email of a session a popup box would appear
> (probably put up by the gnome-keyring system) to request my login
> password.  More recently, this has not happened, so evolution simply
> hangs if the keyring is not opened manually.


Sounds like gnome-keyring-pam not functioning properly, thats the piece 
that's supposed to auto-unlock your gnome-keyring on login.

-- rex