[Authentication] KDE vs. Gnome vs. Firefox password management applications

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/11/30 Michael Leupold <lemma at confuego.org>:
> Hi Dotan,
>
> On Sunday 29 November 2009 23:14:53 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Currently the KDE password management application does not work with
>> Firefox. The Gnome application may or may not, I don't know. There is
>> a bug open on the Mozilla bugtracker regarding the issue:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278343
>>
>> In that bug it was implied that the good folks at this list are
>> working on a common standard for saving passwords, and that this
>> standard may pave the way for integration between these three tools.
>> Is this work ongoing? Is it stalled? What does it need to proceed?
>>
>> Thank you for your hard work.
>
> Work is on the way. The specification work is almost done and the GNOME
> implementation is already on its way (probably making it into 3.0 next
> summer/fall iirc). KDE (me) is a little behind but I've made plans to start
> implementing the spec around christmas. On the Mozilla side we've seen some
> interest for implementing the client parts but afaik there's isn't someone
> working on it. We've gotten some pointers on where to start implementing it
> once the daemon is up and running though.
>