-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 07:48 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote: >> -----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 > > Wouldn't a better integration be a web browser plugin, that allows > people to encrypt what's in a text field?
For integration with a browser certainly. However, an applet that encrypts the contents of the clipboard provides a "stop-gap" integration for every application that uses text in the clipboard. This is similar to a feature from the commercial PGP software that was oft requested by users. - -- 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 iD8DBQFFBAB8jU1oaHEI4wgRAsB+AKCS47c38aI5uZFSRJCcgfKtnJnA0QCfUnDN 6nix1hvv/WP/uUFJvu1pMc4= =8MKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
