Re: gnome-vfs authentication dialogs

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 02:41 +0100, nf2 wrote:
> Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 01:21 +0100, nf2 wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I am trying to develop a generic wrapper "libdesktop-adapter" for 
> >>Gnome-VFS and KIO...
> >>
> >>My problem is how to tell Gnome-VFS to pop up the standard 
> >>authentication dialog when the password of a remote resource is required 
> >>(like nautilus and the filechooser do). As Gnome-VFS doesn't have any 
> >>GUI parts, i don't know where to find the API and code for this dialog. 
> >>Is there any documentation about this?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >The authentication dialog API is in libgnomeui. I don't know if it is
> >documented, or how well. You'd have to check the developer documentation
> >pages for it.
> >
> >  
> >
> hmm ... didn't find any documentation...
> 
> is there a code sample how to use this? is it just calling the function
> 
> gnome_authentication_manager_push_async()
> 
> to install the right callback handler?

No. You just call gnome_authentication_manager_init() and it'll will
work. The push stuff is for some special casing needed in the
fileselector code.

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