[Authentication] Secrets API timeline and design

[Mike Mammarella]

Hi all,

I'm working on getting Chromium to integrate better with desktop
environments and one part of that is storing form passwords in the
environment's password store. We want to avoid depending on specific
libraries like GNOME Keyring and KWallet, in case users don't have
them installed, and the DBus Secrets API looks like it's the
up-and-coming solution to this (and the more general problem of
supporting multiple desktop environments).

I noticed a commit about four days ago that contains the beginning of
a DBus service which would implement the proposed API specification;
how quickly might this be complete? Is the plan for it to be
implemented by each possible backend (Keyring, KWallet, etc.) or is
the idea for there to be a single implementation for all desktop
environments? Will there be a client library to access it (e.g. as
suggested in http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/authentication/2009-August/000071.html),
or will applications use DBus directly to communicate with the
service?

Cheers,
Mike