[Syncevolution-issues] [Bug 3604] command line: use keyring

(In reply to comment #1) > fixed in the branch 'origin/bug3604'. waiting for review. This patch moves the handling of the keyring into the configuration system inside libsyncevolution. Perhaps I should have been more explicit about this: the *command line* should access the keyring, not the *core engine*. The rationale is that there might be multiple, front-end specific ways of storing passwords (KDE keyring anyone?). We can't support all of them in the core engine and keep it front-end agnostic at the same time. Putting GNOME keyring access into the "syncevolution" binary is already stretching the concept a bit. I can imaging that we'll end up with --keyring=GNOME and --keyring=KDE at some point, possibly with loadable plugin modules which do the platform specific keyring access. That's overkill right now, but i'll be easier to fix if it is not encoded inside the core engine itself. What you need to do is implement your own CmdlineSyncClient, derived from EvolutionSyncClient, and then override the askPassword() method.