What does seahorse do?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-11-28, Mario Vukelic wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 21:36 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
>> Is seahorse "obligatory" (i.e, a dependency of ubuntu-desktop) in
>> 8.10?
>
> Since 8,04, as I wrote. That is, since Gnome 2.22, when Seahorse was
> integrated into the Gnome platform as *the* key manager.

I was about to say that I'm running 8.04 on my laptop with
ubuntu-desktop but without seahorse (which has never worked properly
on that machine, despite working on two other ubuntu computers I use),
but I've just checked my facts and it (the laptop) does not have
ubuntu-desktop, for two reasons --- installing that tries to install
seahorse as well as f-spot, which I don't use and have never been able
to configure to shut up and not auto-run when I plug my camera or
camera card into the laptop.

How bad is it that I don't have ubuntu-desktop installed?  Should I
install it before I upgrade to 8.10, and then purge f-spot and
seahorse again?