Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:01:41
Message-Id: 200910232300.33270.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying settings from Konqueror-3.5 to 4.3 by Mick
1 On Friday 23 October 2009 20:30:46 Mick wrote:
2 > On Friday 23 October 2009 10:05:33 Alex Schuster wrote:
3 > > Mick writes:
4 > > > Hmm ... wonder if this is also why
5 > > > kdewallet (or modern equivalent) is no longer there?
6 > >
7 > > The KDE4 still has the kdewallet which I find quite useful. As I started
8 > > my KDE4 setup from scratch, I saved the wallet with KDE3.5 and imported
9 > > that in KDE4.
10 >
11 > It seems that the kwallet does not perform as expected:
12 >
13 > With 3.5 I would fire up kmail (remember I am running xdm/fluxbox not
14 > kdm/kwin) and when I clicked on 'Check Mail' it caused kwallet to launch
15 > and ask me once for the master passwd.
16 >
17 > With kmail4 this does not happen. The kmail application asks for passwords
18 > separately for each account of mine without kwallet being launch at all ...
19 > until I click to send a message! Then it launches fine and asks for the
20 > master password.
21 >
22 > I can't call this a bug - but I find it problematic to have to enter 3-4
23 > account passwds instead of just one.
24
25 SOunds like you did not select the "store password" check box in the kmail
26 account config dialog.
27
28 Without a wallet acive, it will try to read passwords from kmailrc (IIRC)
29
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31 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com