Re: Proposal for Seahorse inclusion in GNOME 2.18

[Adam Schreiber <sadam CLEMSON EDU>]

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Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 12:55 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
> Agreed.  That would be a great Epiphany extension in the context menu of
> a text entry.

Such an extension now exists in HEAD.

2006-09-17  Adam Schreiber  <sadam clemson edu>

    * configure.in:
    * libcryptui/cryptui.h:
    * m4/epiphany.m4(added):
    * m4/gecko.m4(added):
    * plugins/Makefile.am:
    * plugins/epiphany(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/Makefile.am(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/eel-gconf-extensions.h(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/ephy-debug.h(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/seahorse-extension.c(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/seahorse-extension.h(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/seahorse.c(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/seahorse.ephy-extension.in.in(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/mozilla/Makefile.am(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/mozilla/mozilla-helper.cpp(added):
    * plugins/epiphany/mozilla/mozilla-helper.h(added):
    Initial commit of Epiphany plugin.  Allows encryption of text fields.
    #355386.  Epiphany extension code by Jean-François Rameau(jfr).

See also: http://sadamclemson.blogspot.com/2006/09/epiphany-goodness.html

Adam Schreiber
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