Symmy in kde-review

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Elvis Angelaccio <elvis.angelaccio at kde.org
> wrote:

> On lunedì 4 dicembre 2017 22:49:20 CET, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>
>> 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: ...
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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".
>>
>
> Too many steps for the average user, imho. This is why with symmy there is
> just "Right click -> Encrypt", done.
>

True, and this can be made easier in kgpg without a lot of effort.


> All in a different process, so Dolphin is not blocked.
>>
>
> Right. I see other issues though:
>
> * no way to stop the job from the notification applet
> * job progress is not reported
>
> symmy uses gpgme and thus it was easy to implement the above features.
>
> Cheers,
> Elvis
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