#KeepSecret, a new KDE tool to manage secrets
(This is a very short, poorly written article. I just found this today, and I wanted to write about it).
I was setting up KDE on my new Thinkpad today when I came across a weird issue: none of the passwords stored in GNOME Evolution (my preferred email client), would show up in KDE’s wallet using kwalletmanager (KDE’s GUI used to store passwords). However, they all showed up in Seahorse (GNOME’s equivalent GUI tool).
Evolution is a GNOME application, but it still seemed weird to me: don’t they use the same backend? As it turns out, they don’t - kwalletmanager only shows passwords stored in its specific folder format, while Seahorse uses libsecret. Interestingly, passwords created in kwalletmanager would show up in Seahorse, but not the other way around.
Searching for a KDE application to show libsecret passwords, I found keepsecret. It’s still in heavy development, from my understanding, but it should be the Seahorse replacement that KDE needs. From a quick test, I found that, like Seahorse, it could also display passwords stored using KDE’s format and libsecret.