Re: [Evolution] asynchronous signature checking

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:30 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I find it quite tedious to have to wait for Evolution (2.4.2.1) to have
> to wait for gpg to return the result of a message integrity check before
> displaying the message for reading.  It would be nice if the integrity
> check could happen asynchronously and update the message display when it
> has gotten the answer.  So like:
>
>      1. Retrieve message.
>      2. Display message.
>      3. Display "Integrity unknown... Signature check in progress" where
>         integrity status is normally shown.
>      4. Launch gpg, and wait async. for it's return.
>      5. Update message display if it returns while message is still
>         being displayed.
>      6. If message display is closed before gpg returns, kill it.
>
> Thots?

I think it's a great idea.  Evo is multi-threaded after all...

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