[skipping a bunch of discussion covered elsewhere in the thread and jumping directly to the UI/UX proposals]
On 04/22/2014 05:00 PM, Philip Jackson wrote:
> What about some consideration of the time elapsed since [valid] status was
> conferred ?
Is this the right time limit that a user should be interested in? what
about duration since last use or something like that? compare the two
following scenarios:
i certified Joe's key a year ago and we never exchanged any e-mails
(signed or otherwise) after that.
i certified Mary's key a year ago and we exchange encrypted/signed
e-mails every week.
time elapsed since [valid] status conferred is the same in both cases.
I agree that a time limit indication could be useful, but it should
probably be "time since last observed/used" or something like that.
that's a little trickier to count, unfortunately, and i'm not sure if
the extra UI complexity is worth the tradeoff. but it's certainly worth
considering.
>> * if the user manually chooses to encrypt the message when some users are
>> not [valid, then the non-[valid] icons should be highlighted or made bigger
>> or flash or blink or something to draw attention to them.
>
> With a help message when the cursor is hovered over the icon.
yes, that would be great.
> and perhaps if the time since {valid] status was conferred is greater than
> some specified interval, something like this --
> "it is x months since you accepted this key/userid as valid, are you sure you
> still want to use it or would you like to re-check?"
if the user said "i'd like to re-check", what do you think enigmail
should do?
Regards,
--dkg
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