Pinentry with flatpak applications

Sam Overton gpg at samoverton.dev
Sun Feb 9 05:13:51 CET 2025


On 08/02/2025 22:29, jay.kayes at posteo.com wrote:
> Looking forward to it. Are you proposing to ignore by default, or give 
> the possibility to ignore DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS? With the popularity 
> of Flatpak apps, ignoring DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS by default feels like 
> it would be better UX overall. On the other hand, there must be a 
> usecase for passing through the dbus address to pinentry which I'm not 
> seeing.

The task in the issue tracker is here if you wish to follow it:
https://dev.gnupg.org/T7522

The default in my patch is to maintain the current behavior, since 
otherwise this would break existing deployments which rely on it (eg. 
https://dev.gnupg.org/T3947 ).

Regards,



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