GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 692531
dialog appearing for invalid SSL certificates isn't pretty
Last modified: 2013-09-24 22:49:23 UTC
Created attachment 234407 [details] dialog for invalid SSL certificate I never see this dialog appear when I add my mail server to other mail clients such as Thunderbird, I only see it appear in Evolution. Aside from the question if the appearance of this dialog is a bug in itself, the dialog doesn't look good. See the attached screenshot.
What to fix?
I would prefer we use GcrCertificateWidget [1], but I still need to figure out how to get our APIs to talk to their APIs. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/gcr/stable/GcrCertificateWidget.html
Sorry for being unclear, specifically I meant that the detailed information could be displayed in a way that is easier on the eyes. A quick search [1] learns me that "CN" is for common name, "C" is for country, "O" is for organization and "OU" is for organizational unit. So the dialog could have stripped those field names and inserted line breaks or spaces in their place. Or explain the field abbreviations by changing "C=" to "Country:" for example. This would make the information more presentable. [1] http://info.ssl.com/Article.aspx?id=10048
Check how it looks like in 3.8.0+ at bug #694322 comment #1, thus this might be partially addressed (note of "View Certificate" at the left bottom of the dialog too).
Marginally improved in: https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution-data-server/commit/?id=4266aa1c02de801979193c3ba705513079e92706 ... enough to close this anyway.