GPA - Bug fix + Enhancement Request

[Mark Sansome]

Dear all,

I don't know if this is the appropriate forum in which to post this (2
part) message so I apologise in advance if I have got it wrong.
Moreover, I could find no easy to search the archive so I am not sure if
these points have been made before....

I have just successfully installed GPA v.0.7.0 and I am absolutely
delighted with it. I do however have 2 points to make; one a "Bug
report" (possibly) and the other an "enhancement request".

1) Bug report

On very first loading of the software - if you already have a keyring
with both public and private keys - the program still says something to
the effect of "You do not have a private key - do you wish to create one
now?" and will not allow any further action. "Cancel" does not work and
even if you try to allow it to create a new key that does not work
either. In fact the only possible action is to kill the process. Once
you have killed the process and start it for a second time it finds the
keys and works perfectly.

Starting it the first time from a user account with no keys works
correctly as intended.

It should be relatively easy to recreate this fault. Make a couple of
new user accounts - create a set of keys in one but not in the other -
and then launch GPA in each account.

Once again apologies if this has already been reported.


2) Enhancement request

Once up and running I was delighted with GPA. There is however one
aspect that I would like to see. As far as I can tell there is no means
to perform the usual encrypt / decrypt etc. functions on text pasted in
from the clipboard. Working only with saved files is a particular chore
when posting text into web pages or when using anonymous email servers
which require multiple encryption.

Whilst I admit that my C++ skills extend only just beyond the realms of
the "Hello World" program; it seems to me that this would be a
relatively simple enhancement (?) and would vastly improve the usability
of the application. It is found in most similar applications and, for me
at least, would make this a supreme example of Open Source applications
at their best.


Please let my know if I have not explained myself very well. Once again
I apologise if these points have been made before or if this is not the
appropriate forum.

Well done to all concerned for an excellent product.

Best regards

Mark