From kde-core-devel  Fri Aug 17 12:03:31 2007
From: "Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper" <vr () movingparts ! net>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:03:31 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: KWallet problem for daemon process
Message-Id: <200708170803.31760.vR () movingparts ! net>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118735773327065

re, all...

KPilot uses a daemon process (kpilotDaemon) which remains running for 
synchronization to take place for our users.  It does not currently have any 
on-screen presence (nor has it ever) other than its system tray icon, which 
means that it does not have a top-level widget.  Our new keyring conduit 
needs to store a password and retrieve it from the wallet subsystem.  It 
looks like KWallet::Wallet was designed with the assumption that it would 
only be accessed from processes that have a top-level QWidget and thus a 
window id.  In our case, currently, this is not a true assumption.

How should we approach this?  It seems like the following are possible 
solutions:

1) The Wallet subsystem be changed to not require a top-level widget and 
window id.  Not sure what the ramifications of this are or if it's desirable.

2) Our keyring conduit does some hackery to randomly pick a top-level widget 
like this:  WId window = QApplication::topLevelWidgets().at(1)->winId();  
This seems like not the right way...  =;)

Help, please?  =:)

Thanks!!!

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