[Pidgin] #673: Keyring support for password storage

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#673: Keyring support for password storage
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  Reporter:  shirish       |       Owner:     
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:     
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0
Resolution:                |    Keywords:     
   Pending:  0             |  
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Comment (by acornejo):

 Is there any way that we  could use some kind of hack (temporarly),
 something on the lines of:

 #ifdef __LINUX_GNOME_BUILD__
      // use gnome-keyring
 #else
      // store as plain text
 #endif

 And add the proper configure flags to enable/disable it?

 And by the way, IMHO it's strange that just because you (the developers)
 are not working on a corporate environment, or on a university with
 AFS/NFS you consider this just a "minor" feature/enhancement request, I'm
 sure a lot of users would appreciate such an "enhancement", since not even
 browsers store their passwords on plain text.

 Anyway, if you guys are willing to take such a patch, maybe more people
 will be willing to do the work (I could probably do it). Then when one of
 the developers has the time or need to have secure passwords you can
 implement the abstraction and we can modify the patch to work on such an
 abstraction. But if people have to jump through hoops to get their patch
 accepted, its a long shot this will ever get fixed. I for one, could take
 the time to design the abstraction, but since I don't have
 access/experience with windows/osx/kde it's pretty unlightly that my
 abstraction will work properly with other keyring managers.

 Again, just my opinion, I know you guys (developers) probably also have
 regular jobs and have bigger fish to fry on the bug list.

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