On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 1:49 AM Christopher <ctubb...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 02:07 +0000, Christopher wrote: >> > Ah, my mistake. I was under the impression that it was missing, >> > because >> > related to gnome-python2-desktop ( >> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177390) which >> > contains gnome-python2-gnomekeyring. Maybe gnome-python2-desktop can >> > be >> > built with gnome-desktop3? Not sure I understand GNOME packaging >> > interdependencies yet, but I miss my old python keyring library. >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd never heard of it before now, but I looked into it briefly out of >> curiosity. Turns out gnome-python2-desktop (called gnome-python-desktop >> upstream) contains old-style manual Python bindings to various old >> GNOME 2 stuff. These have all been obsoleted for a very long time by >> PyGObject; the upstream git repo was archived five years ago. It's >> totally unrelated to gnome-desktop3 (called gnome-desktop upstream), >> which is an important GNOME module that just happens to have a >> confusingly-similar name. >> >> gnome-python2-gnomekeyring in particular contains old bindings for the >> gnome-keyring library, which is also long deprecated. The modern way to >> access the keyring is to use libsecret via PyGObject: >> >> https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/#Secret-1 >> >> Michael >> >> > > > libsecret won't work. It's a higher level abstraction and I need to look > at the GnomeKeyring attributes directly. You can do this with the old > gnome-python2-gnomekeyring library, but the new GnomeKeyring > (python-gobject/python3-gobject) returns a GLib.Array object for the > attribute list, and I can't figure out any way to inspect the attributes > from that in python (and it looks like I'm not the only one[1]). > > [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25642221/196405 > > I don't suppose anybody here knows how to read the GArray in python to get the attributes list for a keyring item in GnomeKeyring?
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