Bug 42382

Summary:	Improve feedback when signing/encrypting
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	alastair
Component:	encryption	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	luigi.toscano
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandrake RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description alastair 2002-05-09 13:57:08 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           1.4 (using KDE 3.0.1 (CVS >= 20020327))
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Mandrake Linux Cooker i586 - Cooker
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.2 2.96-0.76mdk)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-6mdk
OS/Compiler notes: 

I'm using GPG 1.06 and find the (English UK) wording when signing and/or encrypting an message confusing as there's not enough feedback as to the precise state of the message.

If I send a message which is being signed but not encrypted I see a popup reading:

'Should this message be encrypted?'

Much clearer would be:

'This message will be digitally signed. Should it be encrypted as well?' (with buttons Sign and Encrypt | Sign Only)

It would also be useful to reinforce the state in the Encryption Key Approval popup thus:

'This message will be signed using the following keys:'

'This message will be signed and encrypted using the following keys:'

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog)

Comment 1 Ingo Kl 2002-05-09 16:20:11 UTC

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Thursday 09 May 2002 15:57 alastair@cream.org wrote:
> I'm using GPG 1.06 and find the (English UK) wording when signing
> and/or encrypting an message confusing as there's not enough feedback
> as to the precise state of the message.
>
> If I send a message which is being signed but not encrypted I see a
> popup reading:
>
> 'Should this message be encrypted?'
>
> Much clearer would be:
>
> 'This message will be digitally signed. Should it be encrypted as
> well?' (with buttons Sign and Encrypt | Sign Only)
>
> It would also be useful to reinforce the state in the Encryption Key
> Approval popup thus:
>
> 'This message will be signed using the following keys:'
>
> 'This message will be signed and encrypted using the following keys:'

Thanks for your suggestions. I will take them into consideration.

But as this is no bug (as in the program crashes or does bad things) I=20
will change the severity of your report to wishlist.

Regards
Ingo

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE82qG7GnR+RTDgudgRApw9AKC16WUHslNusaJ8nMoPF32s09LmHQCgiMUB
d8zE5FCqSTTr0hf0lejtW2o=3D
=3DUpN9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Comment 2 Ingo Klöcker 2002-09-18 10:46:53 UTC

I have implemented the first part of your suggestions.

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2008-11-29 15:22:36 UTC

Assigning back bugs that weren't taken care of to kdepim-bugs.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:19:38 UTC

Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.

Comment 5 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 01:10:05 UTC

Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.