Bug#501812: gnome-keyring: Disable graphical dialog when interacting with a shell

Yury Arkady Sobolev yury at ocf.berkeley.edu
Wed Mar 25 18:31:16 UTC 2009


> I’ve never noticed this behavior. The keyring only unlocks the keys it
> actually needs. There is only one exception to this rule: the first time
> it unlocks a key, it will have to try all keys since it doesn’t have
> metadata on them. This issue is also fixed in 2.26 by using better
> heuristics.

I suppose this is because I have not unlocked a key, so it keeps asking
about it. I would expect that once it has found a key that works, it
would try that first. I will see if this improves in the next version.

> I agree that the “unlock this key on login” checkbox is annoying and
> there should be a better way. It’s been on my mind for a while, but I’ve
> just opened a report upstream about it:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576676

Thank you for taking the time to consider my points and respond.

-Yury







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