I cannot reproduce this on Jaunty. This is, nevertheless, a dangerous thing to do: if you are logged under your own userid (not root), and you 'gksudo seahorse', you will change the ownership of the ./gnupg/(pub|sec)ring.gpg to root -- which will mean you will lose access to your gpg keyrings.
On the other hand, this message is weird... ** Changed in: seahorse (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Status: New => Incomplete -- Seahorse will not generate a key https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/321287 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to seahorse in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs