-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 21.01.15 22:53, Stefan Koch wrote: > I have thought some time about the user interface / user experience > of Enigmail, because in my environment I see that many normal > users struggle to work with enigmail - even if they'd like to. > > I looked a bit through the UI and especially the start (generating > keys) seems quite hard, because for people not into encryption it > includes reading a lot of stuff, they do not yet know about. > > I had the discussion with other people, that encryption should be > hard and you have to read into it, but in my opinion if we really > want a large base of users to encrypt - and this is a topic at the > moment, because we see political advantage to abandon encryption - > we have to create an accessible UI, which introduces new users into > the world of encryption easily *and then* let's them learn step by > step. > > Thus, I think we'd have to move the key generation to an easier > locatable place. Currently it's hidden in "Key management" at the > top right side and "key management" itself is hidden in the middle > of a lot of options, when we open the Enigmail menu.
Yes, that's what the Setup Wizard is designed for. We had a usability study last year and the results made me put quite some effort in the past months into simplifying and enhancing the Setup Wizard for the next version. There is also a feature that launches the wizard automatically when the user attempts to use Enigmail for the first time. Unfortunately that's broken in 1.7.2, but fixed on trunk. In other words, as soon as the user tries to use whatever function in Enigmail for the 1st time, the setup wizard is launched that will enable the user in 4 steps to create a new key. [...] > > And then I'd go on as normal with displaying a message, that the > user should create a revocation certificate. Don't know now if it > explains what a rev certificate is. If yes: everything fine; if > not: let us explain it. That's also part of the recent improvements. > Would be cool if we could make the introduction for new users > easier, so that more people use cryptography for mails. I read that > thunderbird only has 1% market share (don't know if we can trust > that, but maybe yes due to webmail), but still I know people who > use Thunderbird and fail at beginning with Enigmail without my > help. > > I also know we have documentations and stuff, but modern / good UI > should be self-explanatory. Fully agreed. Please try a recent nightly build from https://www.enigmail.net/download/nightly.php It contains a lot of UI improvements (also in other areas) that should make Enigmail more intuitive. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUwKHUAAoJEMk25cDiHiw+LUoH/A22cjPqI0s/z1qMQRK6y0VV ur5C7CETOCvI82e5DD+njxZcFBgeP9aS0qJCTdHMipU3WtyHiOmaJQhndUl8ViII p1eHOV5zrvM+JjyogCBnLGn0xWVlkgH0UDnj/82Xppyy8lTvzaNXM7hyueyVBmk/ /Y5/+X0evy1YIy6W/teIrQoNimcPPz7MMa7Fn6b57BOYrawDJoFVgn/mFe4Nb7xv /B8ImOEv5CBvbLZfyGDTGDYtDyTTsb8xu67PsJGNVxgpWwC1aXGk99PIXBQX02YN kzGv5W3ST5Boa5evXq+AQA39ZpgHJKgEP0/sIkVo9OWcqz1o/o6f6FYQLgUW7QQ= =amMk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
