RE: Seahorse re: 2.4 Proposed Modules

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Jacob Perkins [mailto:jap1 users sourceforge net] 
> URL: http://seahorse.sourceforge.net
> 
> Description: Seahorse is a frontend for gnupg. The goal is to try to
> integrate seahorse/gpg into gnome in order to make key management and
> crypto easier.

So could someone who uses gnupgp try this and comment on it? I'm ignorant
but I'll try to ask useful questions anyway. My first ignorant questions
are:
1. Does this need to integrate with mailers, such as evolution, at all?
2. Are there other crypto systems that we would want to integrate with
GNOME?

> Key management is basically as complete as can be right now, 
> except for
> key server support.

Please tell us about these key servers.

> Gnome integration is being worked on. Right now this includes 
> a context
> menu for nautilus and a control center capplet for 
> configuring pgp/gpg.

What kind of things would this control centel applet allow us to change?

> Future plans include a gedit plugin,

Why would we want a gedit plugin? So far it seems roughtly analogous to
FileHandler, and I wouldn't want a "gzip this" menu item in gedit.

> an out-of-process context to
> synchronize the key-ring,

Can you tell us more about this?

> nautilus property pages, and a 
> gnome-vfs view
> of the keys.

When would this be useful?

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