-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:04 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote: * Text encryption (gedit plugin) >> * A panel-applet for those with special clipboard encryption needs. > > What's that applet actually for? I don't quite understand how that would > be used and/or useful to the majority of our users.
The panel applet was created because a lot of my friends indicated that a barrier to using encryption for their email was that they use web mail a significant amount of the time. The panel applet allows the user to copy text perform an encryption operation on it and paste the new text to a field or in the case of reading mail display the text in a window via a preference setting. In any case the applet has to be added by a user before it sits in the panel. I'm not sure that "used and/or useful to the majority of our users" is a fair criterion as both geyes and wanda are distributed as default. They're fun and good applet examples, but do they fit your stated criteria? > >> Other >> * Rendezvous based key sharing to share a pool of keys on a network > > I guess you mean "Bonjour" here Bonjour, Howl, Avahi, DNS-SD whichever the term you like, but we use Avahi. >> The Seahorse developers' long term goal is to make encryption easy to >> use within GNOME. Besides filling a need for a key manager, inclusion in >> GNOME would help us realize that goal. For example: >> >> * EDS Address book integration >> * About-me: 'my' encryption key selection >> * More intelligent trust metrics based on frequency of use > > Do you already patches for some of this functionality? > A patch to replace Evolution's "Contact Certificates", at least as a > compile-time option, would be a good start. What? We don't get to list our plans for the current development cycle? > I believe that the integration should be done ahead of time, even if it > is a compile-time option, something that users/distributions have got to > opt-in to. Most of the integration occurs as plugins that a user would have to load or "opt-in to". Cheers, Adam Schreiber - -- Why isn't all of your email protected? http://gnupg.org http://enigmail.mozdev.org http://seahorse.sourceforge.net http://live.gnome.org/Seahorse -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFA/twjU1oaHEI4wgRAhopAKCuRq7fHC11wGFd4LPsixOcgungdQCcDFr5 RryXz5JhiiaMUFclu4DDpqE= =jUbS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
