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Kleopatra: Simplify Ownertrust dialog
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From user feedback and personal Experience I find the Ownertrust dialog in Kleopatra too complicated for our target audience. If someone wants to set marginal owner trust the command line should be used.

I would like to have this dialog simplified to:

Do you want to allow <Primary UserID KeyID> to mark certificates as valid (VS-NfD compliant) for you? (VS-NfD of course only in the VS-NfD Mode)

Below in Italics: "This means that you trust the owner of this key to check fingerprints and confirm the identities of others by accepting their certifications as trustworthy."

[Yes] [No]

No-> Unknown trust
Yes-> Full trust

If the Secret Key is aviailable instead:
Is <Primary UserID KeyID> your own certificate?
[Yes] [No]

Yes -> Ultimate Trust
No -> Open the Dialog for a third party certificate next (the one above).

Wording is mostly a suggestion but I think this would be enough.

Revisions and Commits

rKLEOPATRA Kleopatra
rKLEOPATRAd8edf42c8843 Simplify changing the owner trust of keys
rKLEOPATRAf63d3a61be6b Remove obsolete owner trust dialog
rKLEOPATRA68f242061dd6 Remove unused c'tors and superfluous methods

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• aheinecke triaged this task as Normal priority.Aug 23 2022, 3:39 PM
• aheinecke created this task.
• werner added a subscriber: • werner.Aug 23 2022, 3:47 PM

I am fine with that. No need for the WoT bells and whistles

• ikloecker added a subscriber: • ikloecker.Aug 23 2022, 4:41 PM

For better usability and accessibility the [Yes] [No] buttons should be something like [Trust Owner] [Don't Trust Owner] resp. [Yes, This is My Key] [No, That's Not My Key].

• aheinecke added a comment.Aug 23 2022, 5:55 PM

Sure. I think we can do this after 3.1.24. I don't want to have additional string changes now as we have translation at 100%

• ikloecker claimed this task.Nov 7 2022, 8:13 AM
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• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRA68f242061dd6: Remove unused c'tors and superfluous methods.Nov 11 2022, 1:48 PM
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRAf63d3a61be6b: Remove obsolete owner trust dialog.
• ikloecker added a commit: rKLEOPATRAd8edf42c8843: Simplify changing the owner trust of keys.
• ikloecker changed the task status from Open to Testing.Nov 14 2022, 9:17 AM
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Ready for testing

• ebo added a subscriber: • ebo.Apr 25 2023, 4:06 PM

The simplification works as described except in the following case for importing a private key:

No -> Open the Dialog for a third party certificate next (the one above).

Here the "Mark Own Certificate" opens a second time if you choose no.

I think here "No" should do the same as "Abort" and no second window should come up.
Certifiying a secret key which is not my own does not make sense to me. And should somebody need it anyway, they can always do it in a second step.

• ebo closed this task as Resolved.Apr 26 2023, 12:08 PM
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• ebo mentioned this in T6474: Kleopatra: Streamline ownertrust dialog.

See T6474 for the remaining issue.

• ebo moved this task from Restricted Project Column to Restricted Project Column on the Restricted Project board.Apr 26 2023, 12:26 PM