A GPG key.
On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 09:55 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 02:40:08 +0100 Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 09:44:09PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Feb 2016 11:19:21 +0100 Rastko <lylecor...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > and welcome me to the group :P > > > > > > You are welcome, I guess. > > > > > > [...] > > > > Are you *that* sour on Mondays? > > Yep. > > Anyway: > > > The title might be misleading, but I'm experiencing weird behavior > > using GNOME3 desktop under Debian 3.16.0-amd64, in that some disk > > operations and things like generating keys, have delayed feedback, > > for example, I create a key, Documents collection, and such, and > > nothing happens, until a couple of minutes later, by which time I've > > tried several times, and it turns out every time I succeeded. But > > there was no feedback. > > > I create a key, Documents collection > > 'Create a key'- this could mean anything. An RSA key? A GPG key? An SSH > key? What? I also don't see why GNOME should interfere with things that > are essentially command-line operations such as that. Is this some > strange GNOME auto-keygen thing? > A GPG key, but that's irrelevant. It's a cross-application behavior manifested in GUI feedback. > 'Documents collection' - does this mean he has navigated to the > Documents folder in Nautilus? Does it mean he has opened the Evince > document viewer? > There is a "Documents" application with an integrated PDF viewer, in which you are able to define "Collections". But that's just an example. > > no feedback > Where? Via notifications? I wouldn't expect SSH keygen/GPG > keygen/whatever to generate GNOME 3 notifications. > > Forgive my confusion- but I am quite confused. > It's the program GUI I am speaking of, not a notification daemon. F. ex., the list of keys doesn't get updated. The list of "Collections" doesn't get updated immediately.