Comment 107 for bug 217300

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In , Jhorak (jhorak) wrote :

(In reply to Jesse Glick from comment #102)
> > explain how a user would switch from Linux to Windows and bring their passwords with them
>
> Same way you would for secrets used by any other application: enter them
> again. This is an OS/desktop issue, not the responsibility of an individual
> application. Of course if you have decided to use cloud password storage
> like Sync then that would be your means of sharing secrets across machines.

Why not make it still possible? I see no benefit in retyping password when copying profiles. IMO profile should contain all data user wants it to store (ie. also list of passwords). Anyway do the libsecret supports KDE right now? If it doesn't we could probably cut password store support by this change for KDE users or implement another kwalletd backend.

I think storing master password in system keyring manager is making things more loosely coupling. In case system keyring manager doesn't provide master password then we fallback to user input of master password. In case we saved all passwords to keyring and for some reason keyring won't be available users wouldn't have a change to have they passwords pre-filled.