[Bug 163760] New: Unrealistic displaying of certificates located on OpenPGP smart cards

[Manu Favre]

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           Summary: Unrealistic displaying of certificates located on
                    OpenPGP smart cards
           Product: kleopatra
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: MS Windows
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: emerald bluewin ch


Version:           1.9.2-beta (svn-812909, 2008-05-26) (using 4.00.80 (KDE 4.0.80 >= (KDE 4.1 Beta1), compiled sources)
Compiler:          i586-mingw32msvc-gcc
OS:                Microsoft Windows (i686) release 5.0 (2000 Professional)

There is in my opinion a large range of possible improvements for the way Kleopatra manages smartcards, here are some of my thinkings (to be completed by community):

- Add in tabs display a user friendly icon for each certificate. The icon should indicate wether the certificate contains or not a private key and wether the certificated is located on the computer or on the smart card.

- Here above mentionned displaying should react dynamically to the insertion of the smart card (i.e. for a certificate xyz stored in a smart card: if smart card present -> display icon of the certificate with smartcard idiom + "private key available", when smart card removed -> display icon of the certificate without smartcard idiom and without "private key available")

- PCSC session: At the moment Kleopatra just tries to access to the first available pcsc reader and gives up with error message "card not present" if the first pcsc reader does not contain an OpenPGP compatible smart card. Actually it is possible anyway to specify the reader that must be choosen in gpg.conf but in my opinion this is a bit boring in some cases. Proposal: spool all available pcsc readers and make a "candidate list" of all reader where an OpenPGP smart card is actually inserted, if the candidate list contains only one candidate then automatically select it. If no candidates found -> Error message "no available card".

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