Re: Gedit plugin

[Pietro Battiston <me pietrobattiston it>]

Il giorno sab, 27/04/2013 alle 13.45 +0200, Stef Walter ha scritto:
> On 27.04.2013 12:18, Pietro Battiston wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I would suggest using gpgme directly. This is far more efficient,
> although may take one or two more steps. If you need pointers on how to
> accomplish this I can help.

Wow, I've seen some examples of the Python bindings and indeed I should
have spotted it sooner... when I have a free hour, I'll rewrite my code
using it. I just will have to take care of the password request dialog
(right?), which seahorse provided.

> In the 'Gcr' library I'm building a UI selector similar to what is in
> libcryptui, but that may not be related to what you're doing.

Uhm... I googled for gcr, but I didn't really understand what it is.

Pietro