D-BUS is love

[terryfish]

Reminded by a talk on Guerilla marketing today, I'd like to take a moment to recommend that people who hack on dbus related stuff consider a few basic ideas for generalising services.

As an example... Colin Walters has been working on a CUPS thingy (blogged here) and he says:

Eggcups will respond to a D-BUS request for a password by popping up a

Comments

[gwendraith]

> D-BUS is all about services

Exactly, and Haddenham's are almost non-existent! ;-)

[dpash]

I have to say I agree with you there. Presumably you want gnome-keyring to be the only thing to present you with a password dialog, be it for a webpage, printer, mail account or gpg passphrase. It appears that kwallet has no dcop interface to do such things either.

One thing to worry about is security. How do you make sure that the process you think you are talking about is really the right process and isn't a rogue program designed to steal your secrets. Does d-bus have a sensible amount of information in each message?

[terryfish]

Well, only your session can ask for the password; and any program can ask gnome-keyring for a password anyway; so I guess it's not exactly any less secure