then the pubkey must be manually imported but I believe it's just another command?I don't mean to give offense, really, but that's pretty much exactly the attitude that for so many years kept UNIX as a fringe player.
First off, whenever anyone says "it's just another command," 90% of the time they're wrong. Hackers and geeks massively underestimate the amount of interaction routine tasks take. Let's look at what your solution involves:
1. Learn bash well enough to understand whether you need to put this command in .profile, .bashrc, .bash_profile, or wherever. (bash has an embarrassing number of configuration files which are read under very slightly different conditions.) 2. Edit the appropriate configuration file to add this command 3. Remember to reload your configuration file 4. Run ssh-import-id-protonmail 5. ssh-import-id-protonmail gives a path: remember that path for the next step 6. gpg --import (the path given in step 5) 7. rm (the path given in step 5) Steps 1-3 only need to be done once; steps 4-7 need to be done each time.I don't doubt that your solution works great for you! For technically sophisticated users it makes a lot of sense.
But there's also something to be said for: 1. Download an installer package 2. Double-click on it 3. At the command prompt, type "egon n...@protonmail.com"... and have everything else done automagically. For non-technical users, steps 1-2 are easier than steps 1-3 in the bash version, and step 3 is easier than steps 4-7 of the bash version.
The heart of good UX is to reduce the amount of user intervention that's necessary to achieve routine tasks. If you want to get someone's certificate from Proton Mail, that should literally be a one-liner that only requires you to remember the person's email address.
I don't much care whether someone uses "gpg --locate-key n...@protonmail.com" or "egon n...@protonmail.com". I do care that we make it as easy as possible for non-technical users, and make the experience streamlined. :)
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