Re: [Gaim-devel] [Bug 75850] gaim should use gnome-keyring for passwords

[Casey H. <cas...@gm...>]

Luke Schierer wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:24:26AM +0200, Martin Ott wrote:
>> Whether Gaim uses gnome-keyring or plain-old -text passwords would better
>> fit into a compile time option even.
>> Otherwise, once gnome-keyring gets killed in some way, then Gaim would
>> suddenly start to save passwords in the old (plain-text) way. At least this
>> choosing of way to store passwords - should it be through gnome-keyring,
>> old-plain-text or some other way should not be done "too automatically".
>> One more note - is there any gnome-keyring alternative on windows?
> 
> If it needs to be compile time, it must NEVER HAPPEN.  Because then the
> distros are stuck with the choice of either never enabling this, or
> forcing gaim to only be useful in GNOME.  This is an unacceptable
> choice.
> 
> luke

I agree. I think if a plugin for gnome-keyring were enabled and 
gnome-keyring died, the plugin would warn the user of that fact, rather 
than silently reverting to the plain text behavior. Maybe disable 
storing of passwords until gnome-keyring is started or the plugin is 
disabled.

-casey