scim and pinentry-gtk2

Robby Workman rw at rlworkman.net
Tue Jan 13 06:02:30 CET 2009


On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:25:17 +0200
Marcus Brinkmann <marcus.brinkmann at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:

> At Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:15:19 -0500,
> Robby Workman <rw at rlworkman.net> wrote:
> > I suppose the command line option to pinentry might be acceptable,
> > but there would need to be some way to specify in gpg-agent that
> > pinentry should be called with the --scim (or whatever) option.
> > Perhaps it could check for the presence of the XIM_PROGRAM or
> > GTK_IM_MODULE environment variables and automatically do the right
> > thing.
> 
> In response to this and Werner's concern, it could also be done by
> means of a wrapper script.  But this is basically the same as a new
> binary, really.
> 
> > Alternatively, a pinentry-scim binary (which could then be specified
> > in gpg-agent with --pinentry-program) would be acceptable, I
> > suppose.
> 
> Right.  I would haggle about the name, because there is nothing
> special about scim (maybe the current gtk pinentry should be renamed
> instead), but the idea is the same.


Just a gentle "poke" on this... :)  I noticed the new pinentry release,
but nothing about this issue...   In case the context has been
forgotten, see here: 

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-devel/2008-April/024326.html

-RW
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