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infinity0 / mozilla-gnome-keyring-legacy

A firefox extension that enables Gnome Keyring integration (legacy version)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309807
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README: advertises gnome-keyring 3 features, but they are not accessible? #17

Open sourcejedi opened 12 years ago

sourcejedi commented 12 years ago 
- in gnome-keyring 3, you can set policies to automatically re-lock the
  keyring after e.g. a certain amount of time, or a certain amount of
  time being idle.

I don't see these options in Seahorse (which replaced gnome-keyring-manager). And I don't see anything relevant in the gnome-control-center / "System settings".

Maybe I'm having difficulty finding it because my main environments are KDE and LXDE. But I have GNOME installed, and I can't see it there. Maybe I'm missing a package, but I don't see anything relevant in Synaptic's "missing recommended" package list.

Maybe it's a Ubuntu-specific problem.

Google showed some gconf keys with promising names under "gnome-keyring-manager". Who knows, maybe they are still honoured. But I don't think they should be advertised as features unless we honestly know how to use them, and have some documentation for it :).

As compensation, here's another gnome-keyring feature which could be mentioned:

When the screen is locked with gnome-screensaver, gnome-keyring will be locked automatically. When you enter your password to unlock the screen, the keyring is unlocked as well. Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM#SLiM_and_Gnome_Keyring

infinity0 commented 11 years ago

They took it out of gnome-keyring 3.4 because they "didn't have the time to integrate it into gnome-shell" or some bullshit. This is from the gnome-keyring mailing list, around April this year I think, can't remember link right now.

infinity0 commented 11 years ago

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-keyring-list/2012-April/msg00004.html

infinity0 commented 11 years ago

Feel free to bug them about it. I really like this feature myself, but the last email I sent seems to have gotten lost in the mod queue, so if you are going to post, join that list first.