Comment # 17 on bug 1209741 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Franck Bui from comment #16)
> (In reply to Fabian Vogt from comment #14)
> > The graphical session itself is split over multiple services, so unless you
> > want applications started by keyboard shortcuts (kglobalaccel) have a
> > different keyring than applications started by the start menu (plasmashell)
> > or the command launcher (krunner), this is needed.
> 
> I see that makes sense for a group of user services that belong to the same
> component.
> 
> BTW how does it work currently ? do these KDE applications rely on the
> kernel key management infra currently ? if so do they fallback to the user
> session keyring ?

Not at all. cifscreds is so far the only application I've seen that actually
uses it in a DE context.