Anyone know how to securely store things like passwords and OAuth secrets in #Linux? OS X has Keychain, but I obviously can't use that here.

I'm thinking about writing a simple Mastodon client in Swift / ncurses; Swift provides C compatibility, so any C APIs will work just fine.

@noiob Looks handy, thanks!

Can I reasonably expect people to pull in a Gnome dependency? How much of Gnome does it need to pull in? I mean, I don't want people to have to pull in all of Gnome, or ideally even X11 if they're running it on a server or something.

@noiob Looks like it doesn't need too much in the way of dependencies!

I should probably abstract credential storage into a separate class and have two implementations, one for Linux and one for OS X.

@IceWolf
Personally I'd rather pull in a GNOME dependency than a KDE one, Xfce already uses Gnome Keyring anyway and I'd expect other GTK based DEs to do so too

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