Re: cleaning up keyrings

[Stef Walter <stef-list memberwebs com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I guess my simpler API suggestion amounts to "the same API currently
> used for network password, but with varargs for the properties so it
> can be used for any set of lookup properties"
> 
> So, I could have just said that I guess, sorry for the longer mail.
> 
> The varargs are more convenient even for network password I think,
> because functions with tons of args are a pain to use - you have to
> keep carefully checking back to the header to be sure you have the
> right args in the right order. Especially when a bunch of them are
> NULL.

We can add something like this for 2.22.

Sadly the protocol between the daemon and library has been abused by
binding authors [1], but I don't think any of these changes would need
to affect the protocol.

Cheers,
Stef Walter

[1] http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewcvs/trunk/gnome-keyring-sharp/