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Re: Instead of authorizing individual applications against the Launchpad web service, let's authorize the Ubuntu desktop as a whole

To: Launchpad Community Development Team <launchpad-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:14:41 +0100
Cc: Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Saturday 02 October 2010 22:40:10 Robert Collins wrote:
> I have a few minor things you might like to consider.
> 
> We support KDE via Kubuntu and many Ubuntu developers use it;
> gnome-keyring seems rather specific; can we, as Sidnei suggests, use
> an abstraction layer to provide the benefits [currently only
> encryption?] to those environments too?

I was reading the thread and had exactly the same thought :)  KDE uses KWallet 
to store passwords.  Anything that's Gnome-specific will be cutting out a 
whole bunch of desktop users.  Like me. ;)

I can't help but think this problem has already been solved somewhere?

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Re: Instead of authorizing individual applications against the Launchpad web service, let's authorize the Ubuntu desktop as a whole
From: Sidnei da Silva, 2010-10-05

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Instead of authorizing individual applications against the Launchpad web service, let's authorize the Ubuntu desktop as a whole
From: Leonard Richardson, 2010-09-23
Re: Instead of authorizing individual applications against the Launchpad web service, let's authorize the Ubuntu desktop as a whole
From: Leonard Richardson, 2010-10-01
Re: Instead of authorizing individual applications against the Launchpad web service, let's authorize the Ubuntu desktop as a whole
From: Robert Collins, 2010-10-02