If dmenu could easily be used as a replacement for pinentry my desktop would suck a little less. I'm not aware of many other use cases for entering passwords. Is that possible with your patch?
Jan Christoph On Mon 25-07-2016 13:21 -0700, Eric Pruitt wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:14:28PM -1100, mikan wrote: > > I was working on a similar thing but decided that password entry > > doesn't make sense in dmenu context (since it's a menu!) and made a > > separate tool instead and glue pinentry code to it. > > I don't agree with this sentiment -- dmenu happily supports arbitrary > text entry when the thing you want to enter isn't in the list of > presented items. I already use dmenu, so I would much rather maintain > my ~40 line patch than introduce a new tool to my workflow that may > eventually diverge from dmenu in ways I consider undesirable or be > abandoned by its sole maintainer. > > Eric > -- Jan Christoph Ebersbach I didn’t want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ - God’s righteousness. Phil 3:9
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