GPA development

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 08:24:42AM +0200, Werner Koch wrote:
> > a) Keyring management and the management of files management are largely
> > different tasks. They should be divided into separate tools. 
> 
> Agreed - however it should also work as a standalone tool.

OK.
   
> > b) The keyring management dialog should transparently show
> > all important information in one window. 
> 
> Not all - Did you read the Whitten report on the PGP GUI.  
> One important thing is still missing:  An option (which is enabled by
> default) to suppress most information - the standard mode; the other 
> information should only be shown in expert mode.

Yes, a expert/novice dual mode concept. I reagrd it quite useful with
gpa as well.

> >     6. Show a nice counter/clock to give a visual impression on the
> >             remaining time of passphrase validity.
> 
> I don't understand this.  There is no such concept of a passphrase
> validity.

oh sorry, my comment was a bit confusing. I just meant the remaining time
a password is still kept when typed in once. The mutt has this option as well.

Jan

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