Re: Seahorse Nautlus actions volunteer

[Adam Schreiber <adam schreiber gmail com>]

That sounds like a good proposal. The nautilus plugin largely wraps seahorse-tool, so you'll probably want to start there. We don't follow launchpad, so put your updated patches in bugzilla.

Cheers,

Adam

On Jul 10, 2011 12:13 AM, "Rodrigo Silva" <rodrigosilva rodrigosilva com> wrote:
> Hi there Jim and Stef!
>
> I am fairly new to Linux world, but a long time C/C++/Java developer. While using seahorse's Nautilus actions (from seahorse-plugins package) in Linux Mint 10 (Ubuntu 10.10 based) I've found that Nautilus actions for "Sign" files are lacking many important features.
>
> While searching for them in Gnome's bugzilla, I've found that most of the features I miss were already requested, as in:
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/seahorse/+bug/248479
>
> I added a comment there, with some info. But, since this is quite old (from 2006!), I guess you guys lack the time (or will) to do it.
>
> I gladly offer myself to do this then. I just want to know if this is actually possible / desirable / wanted. My goal is to improve the "Sign" action in nautilus, to provide the following features:
>
> - Sign...
> - Detached binary (file.ext.sig) - equivalent of "gpg --detach-sign", currently the only option.
> - Detached text (file.ext.asc) - equivalent of "gpg --detach-sign --armor"
> - Non-Detached binary (file.ext.gpg) - equivalent of "gpg --sign"
> - Non-Detached text (file.ext.asc) - equivalent of "gpg --clearsign" (-t --sign --armor), the gedit plugin way
>
> And perhaps a 5th option, useful for signing binary files with an ASCII output (for email or copy-and-paste):
>
> - Non-Detached binary-to-text (file.ext.asc) - "gpg --sign --armor"
>
> I could script them myself without seahorse, but then I would miss the useful GUIs for selecting key and choose recipient(s). Using zenity for that seems like waste of time, since it's already done, built in seahorse-tool.
>
> So, is this "improvement" needed or welcome? Am I reinventing the wheel? I'm open to suggestions and opinions.
>
> Also, last but not least, I'm sorry for directly contacting you, but since you're listed as Seahorse "usability and Interface" developer, I thought you would be the right person to talki about this. Care to give me instructions on how to proceed?
>
> Regards,
> Rodrigo
>
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