Re: [Evolution] GPG passphrase prompt

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 02:19, Janus Christensen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Evolution is a great piece of work and I use every day, but there are
> IMHO a few small UI problems with the GnuPG passphrase prompt.
>
> If I select "Cancel" on the passphrase prompt an error prompt pops up
> with this message:
>
>   Cannot sign this message: no password provided
>
> Is this necessary? If I select "Cancel", it is because I do not want to
> send the message at this time, and the passphrase prompt should just
> fail silently. There is no need to tell me that the signing of the
> message has failed, since I did not wish to sign the message.

I'll look into it, i was just playing with that code, i think it should
be fairly easy to fix.  Could you create a bug on bugzilla.ximian.com
and assign it to notzed ximian com please?

> When attempting to send a message without a subject, I get prompted
> with:
>
>   "This message has no subject. Really send?"
>
> which is OK, except that this happens *after* I have to type the
> passphrase, which is annoying, since I then add a subject to the message
> and then reenter the passphrase.
>
> Of course, some choose having Evolution to remember the passphrase, when
> entering it the first time during a session, by setting the "Remember
> this password for the remainder of this session." checkbox in which case
> this would not pose a problem. I prefer having it not remember my
> passphrase, though.
>
> Any chance of the subject check coming before the passphrase request?

This is a bit trickier - i think, because the checks are done in
different levels of code (i think).

Actually its a bit odd too, because it shouldn't need to re-ask the
pass-phrase, since the subject isn't part of the signed content.

Mention this in the bug, i'll at least check what the code does and how
easy it is to fix.