Pidgin usually stores passwords as plaintext. This plugin instead saves all passwords to kwallet, which some would argue is a more secure form of password storage.
After the plugin is enabled, whenever an account with a pidgin-stored password signs on, its password will automatically be saved to kwallet and removed from the plaintext accounts.xml file.
You will need the libpurple development libraries, along with pkg-config ang golang.
The go dependencies can be installed through:
go get -v github.com/godbus/dbus
Afterwards, use git clone to download the source (the version is set by git),
and run make to compile. For installation:
- local ($HOME/.purple/plugins):
make install_local - global (/usr/lib/purple-2):
sudo make install
Because I don't like the dbus APIs for C
This plugin is a heavily modified version of pidgin-gnome-keyring
- 2018 Marcus Soll: Modified version to support kwallet instead of gnome-keyring