[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 8590] use gnome-keyring for ssh and gpg if running anyway

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8590

--- Comment #5 from Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > 
> > See http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session/preferences#advanced
> 
> Hrm.  I wonder what all this gnome compatibility really does though.

Have you actually read bug #8014, it's described in detail there. Actually you
can just read the code in xfce4-session/xfsm-compat-gnome.c

> I wonder if it even starts the gpg and ssh agents in gnome-keyring and I
> wonder if it does start them, are the standalone gpg-agent and/or ssh-agent
> specifically not started by xfce's xinitrc, as my patch does.  I'm
> suspecting that's not the case.

Yes it is the case, it starts all keyring modules.

> > You might want to consider using the patch in bug #8014 which ensures sane
> > behavior when GNOME compat mode is enabled.
> 
> Indeed, which leads me to believe that this GNOME compatibility has
> bitrotten and might be more pain than gain.  I'm not really looking for
> GNOME services and/or compatibility.  My patch's goal is to just utilize
> something that already exists because of PAM and save the overhead of
> loading more tools that would just duplicate that functionality.

The patch cleans that obsolete stuff up and allows GNOME/KDE-only desktop files
to be easily activated on demand. GNOME compatibility then boils down to
initializing GNOME keyring. Again, all described in bug #8014.

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