Bug#580402: seahorse: Missing the Gnome Keyring Tab

John Goerzen jgoerzen at complete.org
Wed May 5 23:49:26 UTC 2010


Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mercredi 05 mai 2010 à 14:27 -0500, John Goerzen a écrit : 
>> Package: seahorse
>> Version: 2.30.0-1
>> Severity: important
> 
>> I have performed fresh squeeze installs on 3 machines, and a colleague
>> on a 4th.  All got seahorse installed by default, and they all now
>> have a Gnome keyring with a password.  On none of them does Seahorse
>> show a Gnome Keyring tab.  There is only "Encryption" and "PGP
>> Passphrases" tab in the System -> Preferences -> Encryption and
>> Keyrings panel.
> 
> This is seahorse-preferences, not seahorse. The seahorse tool itself can
> be access through “Applications → Accessories → Passwords and encryption
> keys”.
> 
> Cheers,

Ah.  Found that.  That is rather confusing and counter-intuitive.  Given 
a menu under preferences about keyrings that doesn't actually work with 
the most obvious keyring on the system (the Gnome keyring), it's hard to 
find.  Can this be moved to preferences too in some fashion?

-- John






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