Should I mark/announce GNOME as incompatible with gpg2 for now?
Stef Walter
stef at thewalter.net
Thu Aug 28 12:46:01 CEST 2014
Hey guys,
I noticed this commit:
https://gitorious.org/gnupg/mainline/commit/b896fccaada0caf1987eb95ac99dd6b4ca609c4b
It seems that you don't want gpg2 used with GNOME 3.x as is (in its
default configuration).
Should I go ahead and announce that gpg2 (version 2.0.23+) is
incompatible with GNOME and people should USE gnupg 1.4.x with GNOME 3.x
for now?
I know Werner and I discussed solutions to this issue a more than a year
ago, but obviously neither of us has had enough time to make the changes
happen.
To summarize, either:
a. gnupg needs to integrate with GNOME 3 (prompt via gnome-shell, and
give the option to save passwords in the keyring) and gnome-keyring
can then drop its gpg-agent implementation, as its features would now
be found elsewhere.
Or:
b. gnome-keyring needs to run a proper gpg-agent and proxy all the
commands to it, intercepting the commands it needs in order to
implement its features. This would still be "hijacking" ...
whatever that means :/
I'd far prefer option (a) above. Any takers for implementing either one
of the above?
Cheers,
Stef
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