UI for the list of key signatures?

[David Shaw]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:29:31PM +0100, Miguel Coca wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 07:36:53 -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Miguel Coca wrote:
> > > 
> > >         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...
> 
> GPA is already too far from the PGP user interface. In PGP you have a single
> tree with everything in it (IIRC, I tried a beta some time ago), while in
> this case we would have a small tree for each key with the user ID's and
> signatures.

No, PGP uses a different small tree for each key.  The root of the
tree is the key itself with subtrees for each user ID that contain the
signatures.  That's why I say it doesn't handle photo IDs very nicely,
as the photo doesn't show up in the intuitive place in the tree.

David

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