Comment 23 for bug 41179

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:56:09PM -0000, Michael Nagel wrote:
> I'd be very delighted to see this functionality. And as I am a GNOME
> user this would fix things quite nicely. However some people use KDE and
> even cruder stuff... They'd like to have support for kwallet or some
> other keyring manager... I'd like to change this bug to a more generic
> description.
>
> ... and then there is bug #75850 that is just the same bug as this one
> only that it is filed against pidgin ...
>
> And I begin to wonder if there is not any standard abstract
> infrastructure for managing passwords. I think there are quite some
> applications that could make use of a proper password manager...
>
> So to be more precise:
> a) do we have a desktop environment independent password management infrastructure?
> b) should we have one?
> c) should theses bugs be kept separate or should they be united?
>

Please dont make this bug more generic. Its about gnome keyring. if
you want something more generic, open a new bug or open individual
bugs for other keyring APIs.

 - Alexander