Various design questions

[Bernhard Reiter]

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George,
it looks like there is soem discussion about the same topic going on
the kmail list.

I still think there should be one small repository
which is GUI and big-library independent. It just does not make
sense for each GUI framework to have its own in the long run.

	Bernhard

On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 02:52:40PM -0400, George Staikos wrote:
> On Saturday 20 October 2001 13:58, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
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> > >    I know that you have to make this compatible with Mutt, but do you=
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> > > crypto manager?  I think it would be unfortunate for users to have to
> > > import their keys in two places and manage them twice.
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> > The optimal solution would be that keys are held in one place
> > and can be accessed by several "front-ends".
> > GpgSM will be this part in the diagramm of
> > 	http://www.gnupg.org/aegypten/tech.en.html
> >
> > AFAIUI Gpgme will be the api which can be used by several programs
> > to control the keydatabase.
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>    The only real way to get this to work now is to have the KDE GUI searc=
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> both key databases.  We have to have our own.  Not anyone will want to=20
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> signing in Reaktivate.   This also raises another question:  When a user=
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> imports a new key via the GUI, which database does it go into?  The GPG o=
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> or the KDE one?  Or both?  Or do we prompt the user?  I guess by using th=
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> md5 fingerprint it's easy to remove duplicates so that isn't a problem. =
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> KMail should use the KDE key manager though, not the GPG one  (but the KD=
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> key database can of course merge at runtime with the GPG one).  It would =
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> terribly unfortunate for a user to import a key into the KDE database and=
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> then not get to use it from within a KDE application.
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