Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:13:40PM -0500, Wyllys Ingersoll wrote: > >> Yeah, the documentation for gnome-keyring-daemon is >> lacking. I think you have to google around to figure out >> how to use it correctly. [...] >> > > If you have the magic incantation then please pass it on -- I can find > no useful documentation on the gnome keyring on-line. > > There is a bit of an API guide included in SXDE -- I had to grep the > contents file to find it, and there's a pretty useless man page, a > useless wikipedia page, and so on. The sources include no additional > documentation. > > My guess is that the gnome keyring manager is useless without > applications that use it. Which applications use it? > > Nico >
Sadly, as is the case with alot of things these days, it is poorly documented. I think there are some Gnome programs that use it, but off-hand I can't seem to figure out which ones. The file manager program probably uses it to store passwords for accessing network resources (FTP and things like that). I have a test program that links with libgnome-keyring.so and can perform some operations and works as an example to follow. If you want something more, you probably have to comb through mountains of gnome code to figure out where and how it is used. I think the intention is that it should work like the Apple keyring software, but without documentation or a description of just how it is supposed to be used, it is pretty useless. -Wyllys
