A Software Center for Fedora? [ somewhat OT ]

[John Austin]

On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 15:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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
> 

See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907156

Try
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gcr

John