Comment 22 for bug 532055
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| James Westby (james-w) wrote Re: [Bug 532055] Re: Trusted credential-management apps are broken and doomed | #22 |
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:23:48 -0000, Leonard Richardson <email address hidden> wrote:
> jml, we are talking about #1. Something like the desktop authorization
> clients packaged in Leonov, Ground Crontol, and ubuntu-dev-utils, but
> which actually works now and which will continue to work when Launchpad
> is an OpenID relying party.
>
> I'm willing to consider _any_ client- and server-side design that will
> not require end-users to get Launchpad-specific credentials in addition
> to their OpenID provider credentials. I am as certain as I can be that
> this means opening their web browser at least once.
I don't know of any existing protocols that would allow this to be done
in a way that would support any OpenID provider that Launchpad did.
Have the implementers of at least the GUI apps considered e.g. embedding
webkit in a GTK window without the controls etc., which would reduce the
jarring effect of opening a webbrowser?
Thanks,
James