Re: Balsa with-gnome option

Peter Bloomfield <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.balsa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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On 09/19/2017 04:03:15 PM Tue, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi Peter:
> 
> Am 19.09.17 00:26 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
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>> Of these, (1) seems reasonable. (2) might be better implemented as a separate option like '--with-password-manager = libsecret | gnome-keyring | internal' (Balsa does have its own private config file for passwords), as there is no apparent reason for tying it to the content of the .desktop files.
> 
> I think this would be a good idea!  But now that you are clearing up - why should we keep the gnome-keyring option at all?  I.e. “--with-libsecret” does exactly this, whereas “--without-libsecret” uses Balsa's internal method (which might be improved; e.g. by encrypting the password cache with the GnuPG or S/MIME public key when gpgme is available.  This might be a project for the future, though).

OK--yes, I see that libsecret is available even in Ubuntu trusty, so I guess there's no longer any need to keep gnome-keyring.

>> But (3) baffles me: GSettings is part of libgio, which is always used by Balsa. It does require a backend, but is there any setup where none is provided? If there is, we should have another option like '--enable-gsettings = yes | no", but I see no reason for tying it to --with-gnome.
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> I fully agree with you that GSettings should not be linked to Gnome.  As we always require GIO, I would suggest to always use it, without any configure option.

OK, will do.

Thanks for the thoughts!

Peter
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