Symmy in kde-review

Rolf Eike Beer kde at opensource.sf-tec.de
Mon Dec 4 21:49:20 GMT 2017


Am Montag, 4. Dezember 2017, 22:14:14 schrieb Elvis Angelaccio:
> On lunedì 4 dicembre 2017 10:25:48 CET, Tomaz Canabrava wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 11:14 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > El dijous, 23 de novembre de 2017, a les 10:34:41 CET, Elvis Angelaccio va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> Hi,
> >> symmy has been moved to kde-review for the usual review process.
> >> 
> >> It's a tiny frontend for the symmetric encryption functionality of GPG.
> >> It
> >> doesn't handle signing or public/private keys, as we already have kgpg or
> >> kleopatra for that.
> > 
> > How hard would be to make that functionality to kgpg (simple
> > encryption without public / private keys) instead of yet -
> > another tool to handle file encryption?
> 
> Not sure, perhaps Eike can better answer that (kgpg already does symmetric
> encryption).
> I chose to go with an external process (+ qgpgme) for technical reasons
> (basically, to not freeze the dolphin UI). Since this means we get a
> self-contained binary, it can as well go in its own repo imho.

Right click on a file, Actions, Encrypt File, click Options, chose "symmetric 
encryption". All in a different process, so Dolphin is not blocked. If it's 
really an issue adding an own option to trigger this through their own action 
from the context menu.

Eike
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