Re: [Evolution-hackers] Indication of encrypted and/or verified signature

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Well I guess someone should come up with a concrete proposal and perhaps a patch?  Any proposal will have to take into account whether it is implementable or not, and not just made up ideas with no connection to the code-base.


On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:35 +0300, Juha Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:32 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 08:01 -0400, Carmine Greco wrote:
> > > Right now the encrypted icon and signature icons are at the bottom of an
> > > email.  Can those be moved to the top, most likely in the section of the
> > > window that shows the headers?
> > 
> > no, because it is possible to sign multiple individual parts rather than
> > the entire message, so we cannot move the icon to the top.
> > 
>
> It would still be nice to have some indication of the message's
> authenticity in the header section, a sort of summary of the signatures
> present. Mailinglist posts and other long chains tend to get a large
> tail of sigs and such at the bottom, making it unpleasant to scroll to
> check a signature. 
>
> Perhaps the beginning, as well as the end, of a signed portion could be
> indicated somehow. There could be a block inline with the message, as it
> is now, or a column to the side indicating the portion that is signed.