changing the default for --keyid-format

[Mark H. Wood]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:23:08PM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 19:44, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:
> 
> > Anyway.  If people are interested in what I found out about effective
> > user-interface design with respect to certificate managers, say the
> > word.  Otherwise I'll crawl back under my rock and leave the subject
> 
> GPA has many different ways to show keys.  IMHO the selection box which
> pops up in GPA, if run as a UI-server, can't figure out the key to use.
> I have always thought that this is better than the the standard GPA
> frontpage, which shows all keys; despite that the most common operation
> then is trying to locate the right key.  A search box would make much
> more sense here.  However, changing such a common UI might result in a
> lot of negative comments - people love what they once learned.

Oh, how many times have I wondered why GPA has no search tool.
There's plenty of unused space to the right of "[bunch of keys] Key
manager".  To say nothing of the (perhaps peculiar) custom of placing
a "Find" operation on Edit menus.  The tabular display can stay where
it is.  Perhaps the search function (when there is one) could scroll
it, or sort all of the current hits to the top of the table widget's
viewport.

I've been meaning to do something about that but, I'm ashamed to say,
I haven't gotten it done.

-- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
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