Copy-paste in pinentry-qt4

Koos Pol gpa-dev at koospol.nl
Sun Dec 26 16:32:48 CET 2010


Koos Pol <kp2010 <at> koospol.nl> writes:

> Preferring strong passwords generated and stored in KeyPassX, I'd be really 
> happy if I could copy and paste the strong passwords into the entry field from
> /usr/bin/pinentry-qt4. But that doesn't work. And typing strong passwords 
> sucks.

Well, there has been the occasional discussion about the wishfulness of
copy-pasting strong passwords. But it still itches.
Being a non-C++ developer I'm not sure that my solution is the best, but
hey, it works:

Here is a patch against pinentry-0.8.1 to enable copy-pasting to
pinentry-qt4. Works everywhere pinentry-qt4 is used: kgpg, Enigmail,
etc. I'm happy ;-)

http://koospol.nl/cms/index.php/computer/pinentry-qt4-en

Enjoy!
Koos


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