[Evolution] Evolution (1.5), GnuPG and gpg-agent

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

As some users have noticed (if they are running newpg aka gpg 1.9 devel
series (or is gpg-agent available for 1.0/1.2 also?)), if they have
enabled their gpg to use gpg-agent for passwd prompting, they'd get 2
passwd prompts - one from Evolution and one from gpg-agent, followed by
an error dialog about broken pipes.

I sent an email out to the gpg dev's this morning asking their advice
and was given 2 options:

a. --no-gpg-agent

b. a way to auto-detect that gpg-agent is being used instead

Since I presume that anyone enabling gpg-agent in their gpg config
options probably has done so either because:

- they trust gpg-agent with their passwds more then they trust Evolution
(o/~ paranoia strikes deep... into your life it will creep o/~ --
Buffalo Springfield)

- for some other (presumably) good reason (another program needs it
perhaps?)

I have opted to implement option (b) in Evolution, which is now in 1.5
CVS.

So... if you are the type that uses gpg-agent, please test the next 1.5
snapshot and let me know if there are any problems with it.

Jeff (who will gladly accept offerings of beer^H^H^H^Hciderjack as a
means of gratitude)