Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

[Adam Schreiber <sadam CLEMSON EDU>]

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Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 07:48 -0400, Adam Schreiber wrote:
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>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 22:04 +0000, Nate Nielsen wrote:
>>    * Text encryption (gedit plugin)
>>>>   * A panel-applet for those with special clipboard encryption needs.
>>> What's that applet actually for? I don't quite understand how that would
>>> be used and/or useful to the majority of our users.
>> The panel applet was created because a lot of my friends indicated that
>> a barrier to using encryption for their email was that they use web mail
>> a significant amount of the time.  The panel applet allows the user to
>> copy text perform an encryption operation on it and paste the new text
>> to a field or in the case of reading mail display the text in a window
>> via a preference setting.  In any case the applet has to be added by a
> 
> Wouldn't a better integration be a web browser plugin, that allows
> people to encrypt what's in a text field?

For integration with a browser certainly.  However, an applet that
encrypts the contents of the clipboard provides a "stop-gap" integration
for every application that uses text in the clipboard.  This is similar
to a feature from the commercial PGP software that was oft requested by
users.

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