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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kio_pop3 and kio_imap4 can themselves ask the user for apassword...
From:       Michael Haeckel <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2001-05-17 12:43:04
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On Thursday, 17. May 2001 15:48, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Thursday 17 May 2001 13:12, Andreas Gungl wrote:
>
> > Everything else is clear for me. And to contribute at least an idea:
> > What about providing a stored password (given the user activated this
> > option) directly while letting the kioslave ask when the user wants
> > it's password not to be stored?
>
> Of course, this would be done. It would be rediculous not to.
>
> > (There is still the problem of how to get the password back from the
> > slave when the user has input it the first time.)

Well, but if some mechanism has to be invented to get the password from the 
slave then the current way is still much easier.

I agree of couse, that a password dialog from kdelibs could be used instead a 
own one. I currently can't see a reason in the API documentation, why it 
should not be possible to use KIO::PasswordDialog in an application.

Regards,
Michael Häckel
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