[pygtk] gnomekeyring incomplete

Maciej Katafiasz mathrick at gmail.com
Fri May 16 15:35:15 WST 2008


Hi,

from what I can see, it looks like gnomekeyring bindings are very 
incomplete. Basically only the specialised functions 
(*_network_password_* and friends) are bound, and all the generic 
mechanisms (password functions other than network_password, schema 
manipulation, etc.) are inaccessible. Is that true? 

I'm writing an Epy extension to interface with GMail, and wanted to store 
passwords in the keyring. I *could* mangle it into the network_password 
structure by doing something silly like setting the protocol to 'gmail', 
but it feels wrong. Well, actually I guess it might even be beneficial if 
you happen to have passwords for http://mail.google.com already saved, 
but the question remains: why are the python bindings so limited? Not all 
data you might want to store fits into the schema of network password, 
and that's as true in C as it is in Python.

Cheers,
Maciej



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