Re: [Usability]Re: Proxy capplet

[Glynn Foster <glynn foster sun com>]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:54, Glynn Foster wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:40, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > I suppose I'm not going to have any influence on the UI here really, or
> > whether or not what should be in here, and what gnome-vfs should handle,
> > and currently does/does not have the ability to handle in the near
> > future. So let me say but one thing... PLEASE DO NOT store the passwords
> > for the proxies in gconf. Please store them in ~/.gnome2_private/ where
> > they should be stored.
> 
> Actually, let's not do that either please ;) I'd love to see someone
> step up to the mark and do the key chain manager proposal that Mikael
> suggested a long time ago....although I realise it might not make the
> current deadlines [given feature freeze is in a weeks time].

It should be said, that Sun/Wipro implemented a temporary solution with
a daemon that asked you to enter your password, which was a per session
thing. It's in sun-patches/gnome-control-center/668-85559-w.diff in
cvs.gnome.org if anyone's interested.

			See ya,
				Glynn :)