Noob looking for a "dictionary" of keyring attribute/value pairs (seahorse `Details` section)

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Not sure I’m posting in the correct category. Tried to use the [keyring] tag, but it doesn’t appear in the pull down box. Blame the noob.

I’ve read Projects/GnomeKeyring - GNOME Wiki!, but it doesn’t tell me what the attribute/value pairs in the keyring mean. In seahorse, this list of pairs is enumerated in the Details section. Yes, I realize the values mean whatever the application wants them to mean, but there must be some convention(s), yes? In particular, chrome/chromium will create a new keyring entry for each new “login” I create and it will have similar, but not always the same, details. And chrome seems to get easily confused about which login entry and details to propose when I return to a previous login page. So I’m trying to understand how the mechanism(s) work but also what the “declarative” portions mean.

Please advise at your convenience, thanks.

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but there must be some convention(s), yes?

As the author of seahorse (GNOME Passwords and Keys): no, I’m afraid there is none whatsoever. Even in seahorse itself, we just do a lot of guesswork to be able to display for example the username, or the application that installed it.

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It’s been added only about an hour ago, so not your fault :wink:

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