Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 15:42 +0100, Nicholas Brown wrote:
>
>  
>>> That sounds like the second dialog I describe in my scenario. Now you
>>> mention it, it *does* look like a Qt dialog.
>>>    
>> What pinentry packages do you have installed?
>>
>> [root@(protected)
>> pinentry-gtk-0.7.5-1mdv2008.1
>> pinentry-curses-0.7.5-1mdv2008.1
>> [root@(protected) ~]#
>>  
>
> [root@(protected)
> pinentry-qt-0.7.5-1mdv2009.0
> pinentry-curses-0.7.5-1mdv2009.0
>
>  
>> You also need to configure gpg-agent to use your preferred program.
>> See the gpg-agent man page.
>>  
>
> No I don't.
>
> Let me elaborate: I didn't set any of this stuff up myself. I never
> intentionally installed something with the aim of getting a GPG entry
> dialog to pop up when I started my system. It's being done for me by
> some package or other, therefore it should be doing it correctly. It
> shouldn't do it incorrectly and require me to manually hack a config
> file to fix something I didn't introduce in the first place. :)
>
>  
Adam,
  I can't resist, this is cooker. Mandriva does this sort of thing all
the time, e.g.: libpata migration.

regards,
Steve

>> Integrating keychain and seahorse would be the ideal solution.
>> See my comments in https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=31482
>>  
>
> Yeah, it looks like GNOME actually has a mechanism that works to do it
> just-in-time now, rather than universally at session start, so that's
> better anyway.
>