patch for keyring

[Luke Schierer]

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:26:18AM +1000, Peter Lawler wrote:
> Casey Harkins wrote:
> > Emiliano Necciari wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi to all,
> >>    and thank you for pidgin.
> >>
> >> I attach the patch for storing account password in gnome-keyring.
> >>     
> >
> > but my guess is this won't 
> > get accepted into libpurple directly. I think a better approach would be 
> > to create necessary hooks in libpurple 
> 
> Just in case anyone missed a major point, Pidgin is a GTK app and *not* 
> a gnome app.
> 
> I've seen resistance previously to put gnome-keyring usage into the 
> core. I believe the reason there's resistance, apart from the obvious 
> one stated above, is that the 'better' solution is as casey states. One 
> can then code a plugin that then has it's own crazy dependencies.
> 
> Pete.
> (notadev either)

Pete has hit the nail on the head.  I would be extremely reluctant to
see Pidgin depend on gnome & its libraries.

luke