GNOME3 in oneiric, corresponding transitions

John Rowland Lenton john.lenton at canonical.com
Tue May 31 22:34:19 UTC 2011


On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:55:40 -0400, Rodney Dawes <rodney.dawes at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> This wasn't mentioned in the email, but I think they're worth listing;
> 
> = gnome-keyring =
> 
> The Freedesktop Secret Service API has changed incompatibly, and the
> new gnome-keyring implements the new version of the API, without keeping
> backward compat for older incarnations of the API. If you're using the
> DBus API directly, this will be a pain point, especially if you need to
> maintain compat in the app, for older versions of Ubuntu. There also
> does not appear to be an introspectable way to get the API version here,
> which makes this that much more painful.

Glad you brought it up. Would adding some kind of version property be
possible and reasonable, here?
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