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(Get the code!)
I'm sorry it took so long for anyone to get back to you. I recognize that you put significant effort into learning the python gnome keyring interface, and then coding and testing your patch. Michael is no longer maintaining Lernid and the project was without anyone to look after its code for a while. I just started.
I reviewed your code and then tried it. I'm afraid that I have significant reservations about what it is doing (and, I guess, about the validity of the bug for Lernid).
It seems to me that Lernid should, first and foremost, care for students inexperienced with Ubuntu and #ubuntu-classroom. It goes to some pains to negotiate an acceptable nick for them that is like the one they requested. It seems to me that the additional password panel is an enhancement for the experienced user who has figured out how to use other irc clients, and who has negotiated how to set a nickserv password. That sounds like you and me, but not like our inexperienced students.
The bug is about an enhancement to that password enhancement, and it has costs:
1. As I understand it, once a student has entered a password he or she must thereafter enter what should be a high complexity password to unlock the default keyring for Lernid to retrieve the nick password. This *might* happen just once a login session, saving the student who really wants to use his or her registered nick some effort for subsequent launches of Lernid during the same login session. If it is the result of a less experienced student who tried entering a password on a lark, they are stuck entering their gnome password at least once a signon session, and maybe more, for the life of their keyring.
2. It adds a dependency to the package.
3. It adds code and complexity
It simply doesn't seem worth it to me.
The basic problem here is not your code--I think your code is sound. The problem is the nature of the enhancement requested in bug LP: #527370. I think I'll wait a couple of days and then mark the bug "won't fix".
I regret that you have waited over a year for a response, much less for a response like this, and I regret that this is the nature of our first contact. I sincerely I hope that I haven't put you off Lernid with my opinion.