GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Working To Make Key Rack A Viable Password Manager, Better Printing For Flatpaks

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines ongoing exciting work to the desktop thanks to the additional funding from Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund plus a variety of other ongoing desktop/app enhancements...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Key-Rack-PW-Manager

[duby229]

Damn, it's ugly, it's literally a box of whitespace inside a box of whitespace inside another box of whitespace!

[FuchtelJockel]

Why does it differentiate between flatpak and system? A password manager shouldn't care about this.

[SophiaS]

Most notable thing is: it is written in Rust.

[NekkoDroid]

Why does it differentiate between flatpak and system? A password manager shouldn't care about this.

Probably because there is a difference in implied trust. Flatpaks being "less trustworth" than applications that are installed as "system packages". Also probably because they are grouped into "global" and "per-sandboxed-app", so might as well visiually separate them (haven't checked if this is the case, but there the xdg.freedesktop.secrets portal, so it is likely). Also the system keys probably are shared between all apps, while the others are per app, dunno

[skeevy420]

Why does it differentiate between flatpak and system? A password manager shouldn't care about this.

A lot of GNOME programs make the Flatpak/System distinction, I assume, because Flatpaks are usually implemented in a way where any end user can install them whereas System Apps may or may not be able to be modified by the user; government, corporate, and other such scenarios where the user/root/admin distinctions start to really matter.

On a home system, you're right, it doesn't matter. On a business PC it does. The user doesn't need to and isn't allowed to manage the system package manager or root/sudo passwords.

duby229
Fuckin A, man.

[SophiaS]

A lot of GNOME programs make the Flatpak/System distinction, I assume, because Flatpaks are usually implemented in a way where any end user can install them whereas System Apps may or may not be able to be modified by the user; government, corporate, and other such scenarios where the user/root/admin distinctions start to really matter.

On a home system, you're right, it doesn't matter. On a business PC it does. The user doesn't need to and isn't allowed to manage the system package manager or root/sudo passwords.

duby229
Fuckin A, man.

Thank you for this POV. I am just an end consumer of such things. Beside it is written in Rust (which is good) I don't see any additional value in "just another password manager". I use Google PWM, Vivaldi PWM and Bitwarden PWM (Password Manager). But probably in a company they are disabled for whatever reasons, even the browser ones.

[Jumbotron]

Nice progression for my favorite DE. Two words …Excelsior and Ad Astra !

[loganj]

Damn, it's ugly, it's literally a box of whitespace inside a box of whitespace inside another box of whitespace!

everything about gnome is ugly

[SophiaS]

everything about gnome is ugly

I don't think so. But, yes, there are some nasty corner cases.