Kleopatra exposes a "Comment" field when creating new OpenPGP certificates, and when adding a new User ID. Please do not expose it to normal users. There are very few people who legitimately need this Comment field, and those people can use the command line or some expert mode. In practice, the presence of this field encourages people to fill it in with information that is at best useless clutter. For more rationales why, see: https://www.debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/97 Reproducible: Always
I agree. As GnuPG 2.1 stopped asking for a comment by default Kleopatra should do so, too.
It's on my todo for 16.10 but working on this dialog I would like to replace the comment field by the option to add more then one e-mail address. But the current GnuPG batch keygen API does not offer this :-/ (See https://bugs.gnupg.org/gnupg/issue2280 )
Git commit 7c143754d14f29fe1553f82f38df46a46aa97d73 by Andre Heinecke, on behalf of Justus Winter. Committed on 05/07/2017 at 14:50. Pushed by aheinecke into branch 'master'. Remove comment field from OpenPGP key generation The comment part of OpenPGP user ids is nowadays seen as a misfeature. There is no consensus about what kind of information to put there, and worse, users may not be aware that this information is published as part of the certificate. Some more rationale for this can be found under: https://debian-administration.org/users/dkg/weblog/97 Differential: D6416 Signed-off-by: Justus Winter <justus@gnupg.org> Commit message slightly amended by Andre Heinecke <aheinecke@intevation.de> M +0 -17 src/newcertificatewizard/enterdetailspage.ui M +3 -27 src/newcertificatewizard/newcertificatewizard.cpp https://commits.kde.org/kleopatra/7c143754d14f29fe1553f82f38df46a46aa97d73