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We're basically already there. KDE has already moved to the secret service standard that is used by gnome keyring. The real issue in my experience has been applications hard coding a dependency on gnome-keyring and not secret service. Some applications such as keepassxc and mailpring have fixed that hard coded isssue, but it is still an issue in other applications.