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[Alan Bell <alanbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the lenses I want to write are for local applications that 
require authentication. So I might want a lens for OpenERP, for 
Alfresco, for vTiger CRM, for a local bugzilla, or even for proprietary 
stuff, like a SAP lens or a Peoplesoft lens. I don't know how to ask the 
user for credentials. What I kind of want to do is have the lens in a 
dormant state until the user visits the lens and provides their 
configuration information. Something like this:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/authlens.png

there are a number of outstanding questions I don't know the answers to 
for this:

Where should the credentials be stored (gnome-keyring?)

What to do if there are multiple scopes providing data for one lens?

How to present oauth type connections?

Has anyone else got lenses that connect to sources that require 
authentication?

Alan

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