Encryption stuff in need of solutions

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 24 January 2012, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> >Now that we are talking about passwords I realised that there is no
> 
> simple way to change activities' passwords or recover them. We still can
> switch encryption off and >then on in order to change the password, but
> for now to save the changes the user must click on the "Save changes"
> button, which closes the configuration dialog. I >think switching
> encryption on and off should be immediate (not requiring click on the
> "Save changes" button)
> 
> You just spotted a big inconsistency here: We want instant apply for
> settings dialogs, yet we have classic "Save changes" in Activity
> configuration. This does not really make sense.
> However we should not have private yes/no apply instantly but none of the
> other changes.
> So I hereby strongly suggest to have all changes to activity settings
> apply instantly and only have a "close" button on the dialog.
> Comments? Would we run into some trouble with that?

i don't see much problems in that per se, apart becoming a bit more 
computational intense.
however it would pose a bit more problems in the add resources ui if we would 
keep consistent that one too, since there it would get a lot more intensive 
and would be quite impractical to remove one by one the things that have been 
added by mistake.
maybe is acceptable, but not so sure

Cheers,
Marco Martin