UI for the list of key signatures?

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Miguel Coca wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> It seems that in a few days, we will have the list of key signatures
> available in GPA again. As I prepare it, I'd like to have your input on
> what the interface should look like.
> 
> It's not a matter of just showing a list, as the old versions did. We can't
> put all the signatures in one big list, one after another, as they belong to
> the different user ID's, and there would be duplicate signatures.
> 
> Which of these ways do people think is more appropiate?
> 
>         1. A tree, with the user ID's as branches and the signatures as
>         leaves. This is how PGP does it, but it's slightly confusing to mix
>         different things (user ID's and signatures) in the same listing.

I don't think the tree design is perfect (it doesn't handle photo IDs
very well), but perhaps it's worth thinking about doing it this way
simply because it would make things a lot simpler for PGP users moving
over to a free OS...

David

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