GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 320311
UI issues in gnome-keyring-manager
Last modified: 2008-11-15 19:49:47 UTC
Here is a list of issues I came up with after playing around with the ui for a few minutes: - error dialog at startup when no default keyring - list of keyrings not visible at startup - Lock on idle checkbox inoperable - Lock timeout fixed at 0 - The key tab is just empty when no key is selected - The applications tab displays a cryptic /path/to/application when no key is selected - When a key is selected, it displays the path of the binary, which is not much better - What does Read/Write/Delete mean there ? - The "More Options" tab shows information that nobody can understand without documentation. Unfortunately, there is no documentation... - The type column in the key list is not explained any further. What do the icons mean ? - "Delete key" should be a context menu item on the key list - The key/application tabs display stale information when I switch to a different keyring - Doesn't monitor keyrings, and no refresh menuitem - If I initially deny it to see a key, the key gets shown with an empty name in the list, and the name is not updated, if I later unlock the key - "Unlock" should be in the context menu of locked keys
Created attachment 54359 [details] [review] Patch to change UI in "application"-tap Made some improvements on the "application"-tap, mentioned in these bullets: - The applications tab displays a cryptic /path/to/application when no key is selected - When a key is selected, it displays the path of the binary, which is not much better - What does Read/Write/Delete mean there ? At least, this looks better in my eyes. Screenshot can be found here: http://www.markus-jonsson.com/screens/keyring01.png
Comment on attachment 54359 [details] [review] Patch to change UI in "application"-tap Thanks for these UI fixes, please commit. (and we should split this bug into shoter ones for easy-fixing)
I'll commit this and mail an announcement to the docs people. Leaving the report open since I don't think the patch addresses all the issues that Matthias reported.
Created attachment 63652 [details] [review] Make the keyrings initially visible btw, who is maintaining gkm? there are some others patchs waiting for approval.
gnome-keyring-manager has been deprecated and superseded by Seahorse more than one year ago. There has not been any active code development for more than a year. This bug will probably soon be closed as WONTFIX or OBSOLETE.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, gnome-keyring-manager won't be developed anymore and it has been superseded by Seahorse.