-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 18.03.15 15:53, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> But what percentage of overall enigmail users are they, and how >> likely are they to blindly send their key to a keyserver rather >> then blindly click a button to attach their public key? [...] > > If you don't like the button, great. Don't use it. :) But we did > get feedback from a large number of trainers at the Circumvention > conference, and I did not hear one single complaint about the 1.8 > beta I showed them with the "Attach public key" button. (About > half of them thought it was a great idea; most of the rest thought > it was a decent idea; only two or three were indifferent, and none > were hostile.) > > As always, Patrick's in the driver's seat and gets to make the > final decisions on everything... but my feeling is the "Attach > public key" button is something that an important fraction of our > users approve of, and for that reason we're not going to get rid of > it. We might figure out better ways to present it or make it fit > in the UI, but we're going to continue to make it extremely easy > for users to attach public keys to an email message.
I should add that one of the outcome if the usability study we had last year showed that this is an important function and that such a button was missing - especially for beginners who don't want/need to know Enigmail and the concepts of public key encryption well. To summarize this discussion: there is often a trade-off between usability and other aspects in a system (space, transparency, configuration, etc.). I strongly believe - and many agree on this - that we need to improve usability, even if it's at the cost of other aspects). I'm not so worried about the users we have as they seem to live quite OK with what we had. I'm much more concerned about the users we don't have yet, or that we lost because Enigmail was too difficult or not intuitive enough. Encryption only matters if can be applied by the masses. As today's screens get larger and larger, I don't believe that we waste a lot of real estate on the screen, given how much more intuitive the new buttons are compared to the old version. Whether or not you like (some of) the new buttons and the toolbar as such is first of all a matter of taste. I think the new version is a lot better than the old one, and I would not want to go back to the old layout. - -Patrick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVCaFsAAoJENsRh7ndX2k7n2sP/A3VSI19MZpBYC3x3puBUy2d /VC01lWXs2NeoJqM5PFRlXtEslaWOGEMXR1EcyhqNb5pG2mtLZ5/zChB1u9q5rY0 nqJF4ZDvdkmLrhMSEGVR5BtyX0h3ZKzFURKzb2kfO1129LRZwXZ7WqXsfXqTYvo3 IP96a6HRG6beAvwvQD0a/5IA+E6kv84FlKIiOcWXm5Xf5J6zKRc6D0mFmMEcrQmF EXpYSuFGXA9x7xg821yQOfr0VbZIf2+nHBSaNTxxulCScQVqoCQk/+kXuU1Ic4dE yGUkNmwDlWeZe9or0EH4QCh/e0ta9macc0MKF5MYdmxdtvi+OMirgeub5rf8oWLK 8ckZEzx7rWyd56r5FxuiySZ/91jomTOndrDRwn2nBMJAHE1z1QEiBlm4mYwp0fA7 N9Wg+xRjaItmxbQ+q2UXbzJNLiFB33HNHwmUYEParauKvxdCbYQgaHaHpzHa5B2j Gq5DUEYwcXkQjPpP84cS5Jc7CRy6mUBgMWMs20KT3bvYNNhDluNI0deKpX7SiQZB RSq4tgq1bV/IyJ2cnr4T6Ez44Xf8HOU02M3xFbOeZB3D5sPaa6T9wDfmoUL3aicZ 0a+JwD+W9qHrIOeeHyU0J2/nuP3JwYyy6Nhr2EYadTR6LtPJrV0Q5phlKlB0Ij1E 2gR2rBBUp2zOjg20ERWu =gz1z -----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
