GPA development - icons for trust level

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 05:06:55PM +0200, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> > marginally	thumb vertical
> 
> You mean: thumb horizontal?

Yes of course :-)

> This is about how far you trust in another human.  This question
> is a very serious one.  (Therefore we do not show the ownertrust
> in the public key ring editor by default.)  The meaning of these
> trust levels must never be misunderstood.

OK.

> For instance, I have a friend whom I really trust in many
> respects, but he is completely unexperienced in computers.
> Emotionally, I would "have to" assign him a "thumb up".
> However the correct assignment would be an emotion-neutral
> "trust marginally".

This must be part of the help-text.

> > We get in trouble when
> > there will be more than 4 trust levels.
> 
> AFAIK, there will not be.

So we'll go for the thumbs?

To my mind we should apply the same icons
to the trust levels for owner _and_ for keys.

Are there any reasons why this should not be done?

Jan

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