The fall of KDE?

[Michael W. Holdeman]

On Tuesday 18 November 2008 23:20:50 Steven Vollom wrote:
> Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Steven Vollom wrote:
> >> Me too, Nepal.  But I just haven't taken the time to understand
> >> Kwallet.  I just uninstalled it when I configured this installation.
> >> But I think I want to know the benefit.  If it is just a bunch more
> >> mouse clicks, I don't want it either.  If it requires a more secure
> >> password to make it safer, I am not sure I want to have to type in an
> >> increasingly more difficult password all the time.  I have one that is
> >> 37 characters, all mixed up and senseless, but when I am in a hurry, I
> >> make mistakes and have to reenter too many times.  Learning the
> >> benefits
> >
> > Why do you think it would be more mouse clicks?
> >
> > KWallet is pretty simple.  Every KDE app that asks for a password should
> > be able to use the wallet.  The first time in your KDE session that an
> > app asks for a password, you will have to give kwallet's password -
> > which can be as simple or difficult as you want.  Obviously, more complex
> > is more secure.  After that, depending on configuration, it may never ask
> > for the kwallet password again until you logoff again.  The wallet
> > manager can be configured to close if nothing else is using it, in which
> > case the next app to need it will have to ask your password again, or
> > after a certain time, but in any case it will never ask for a password
> > _more_ often than if you aren't using it - because it only asks when
> > something else would have prompted you anyway, and not always then,
> > either.
>
> OK.  If I use Kwallet.  It ask for the new password.  I place the
> password in Kwallet.  Then later I enter an area that requires a
> password.  Do I have to open Kwallet to be reminded what the password
> is, then enter it, or when I enter the password protected site Kwallet
> opens the site automatically.  I just don't want to have to open Kwallet
> and then type the password into the protected site to open it.  I only
> want to do the password task one time.  If Kwallet does the work for me,
> then I want to use it.  When I click on Ebay in my bookmarks, my
> username and password are entered for me; all I have to do is click
> enter and it opens.  If that happens using Kwallet, I want Kwallet.  And
> if that is the case, what do you suggest, my 37 unrelated number, symbol
> letter in any case password that I somehow can remember?  I open it on
> boot up and forget passwords wherever I go?  If you come up with the
> answers I want, I will regret not using it.  I have just been so busy
> learning basics, I haven't had time to learn some of the jewels that I
> know are in KDE.  In time I will, but it will take time.  You can make
> the Kwallet decision for me right now by telling me how it works with
> relationship to my wants.  Thanks!  Steven
That is pretty much what it does. I have used it for a long time it works 
well.

Its only drawback I have seen is that it does not work with firefox.

Mike
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