Re: Gedit plugin

[Pietro Battiston <me pietrobattiston it>]

Il giorno sab, 27/04/2013 alle 11.24 +0200, Stef Walter ha scritto:
> On 27.04.2013 09:35, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > Instead I have another question: of all the keys I get with the
> > "ListKeys" function of org.gnome.seahorse.Keys, some have a "raw-id"
> > looking like "04E29C73", some like "B0894B0104E29C73:2". All of my tests
> > seem to show that those of the first kind are able to encrypt, those of
> > the second are not
> > (org.freedesktop.DBus.GLib.UnmappedError.Org.gnome.seahorse.Error.Failed.Code1: Key is not a valid 
> > recipient for encryption). But can I reliably establish that I can drop all keys with the "raw-id" longer 
> > than 8 digits when asking the user for a key to encrypt? Or is there a better method to do this filtering?
>
> Again, looks like a bug to me. It's hard to know how to answer this
> question off hand. libcryptui and that DBus interface is really old and
> not really in use anymore. But happy to help integrate patches if you do
> find the bug.


I'll try to take a look (but again that's not a stopper to me).

But your answer triggers an obvious (possibly final) question: is there
some suggested replacement to "libcryptui and that DBus interface" which
is "not really in use anymore"? Did I make an obvious mistake in relying
on it with newly written code?

Thanks,

Pietro