RE: Seahorse re: 2.4 Proposed Modules

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 13:50, Murray Cumming comneon com wrote:
> > From: MArk Finlay [mailto:sisob eircom net] 
> > Encryption is all about keys and anyone who uses it knows that.
> 
> I don't think everyone knows that, certainly not the first time they do it.
> I think people would start out thinking "I want to encrypt this". The
> software might then tell them that they need a key.
> 
> > I agree that the key 
> > manager is a
> > bad
> > place to go if you want to encrypt a file - nautilus is 
> > better suited to
> > that - but that
> > doesn't negate the need to manage keys.
> 
> OK, so seahorse is more about keys than encryption, but I would hope that
> new GNOME modules help people to achieve fairly specific tasks. At the
> least, I wouldn't like to add an encyrption/signature key manager until some
> general encrypt-this/decrypt-this (likewise for signing) feature was there.

You haven't tried it, have you ;-)

Encrypt-this/decrypt-this is implemented as nautilus context menu items.
My gripes were about the highly specialised user-interface of the key
manager, which is only one part of seahorse.

-- 
Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>

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