[Authentication] Secret Storage API specification project

[Stef Walter]

Some things, for the record...

Michael Leupold wrote:
> The current draft is stored inside GNOME Keyring's git repository [2] and 
> generated using gtk-doc to generate the API documentation. The current working 
> draft is available inside the freedesktop.org wiki [3]. If there's a need for 
> it we will move the spec to a repository where collaboration will be easier 
> and move the generation to docbook2html.

I'm currently using eggdbus (by David Zeuthen) for the docbook
generation. Moving it to something else would certainly be possible, but
out of my skillset. The full XML definition can be found at [4].

I'm also working on trying to implement this API in gnome-keyring under
the dbus-api branch. [2]

> Please note that the current D-BUS interface name is preliminary and not 
> settled upon. It will be decided once the new fd.o specification process has 
> been finalized.

Roger that.

Cheers,

Stef Walter

> [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/Authentication
> [2] http://git.gnome.org:80/cgit/gnome-keyring/?h=dbus-api
> [3] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/secret-storage-spec
[4]
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-keyring/tree/daemon/secrets/api/org.freedesktop.Secrets.xml?h=dbus-api