I just want to point out that we have explicitly decided to remove confronting the user with five different "What next" options in the certificate creation workflow. One reason is that the choice overwhelms the users because some think they need to do everything. Another reason is that many options were completely wrong for some of our customers. Such workflows are much better documented in company-specific SOPs (standard operation procedures).

I think it's ironic (and wrong) that we now re-introduce confronting the user with exactly the same "helpful suggestions" (publish, export) in another workflow.

Publishing should happen either automatically or via the standard workflow. Same for export, e.g. Kleopatra could automatically export the revoked certificate to a file and tell the user the location.

Revocations are an exceptional task and rarely needed. In this case ("help, help , my key is compromised, what shall I do now?") an extra dialog to help the user is imho appropriate. This different for the key generation process, becuase this needs to be done by every user at least once and thus should be UI-wise as simple as possible.

That said I think we should then strive to use only one "next" window.

Edit: what I deleted was wrong, we do not offer a keyserver upload currently.

Alexander suggested that we could avoid another window by putting check boxes in the revocation window for automatically uploading to the configured keyserver and creating a public key export with the revocation. That could then be configurable via the registry on windows, so that companies could adapt that according to their SOP.

I like the suggestion to add a checkbox for the upload. That's also in line with certification which is very similar to revocation.

Regarding the public key export I still think that we should just do it and tell the user the location of the file (I think the Documents folder is suitable) in the success message. It's one decision less for the user to make. In any case we should perform a minimal export.

I'd propose that we could:

• Always export the certificate and tell the user in the success dialog
• Have an extra button in the success dialog allowing the user to upload the certificate.

That way, we don't have any extra dialogs. The user might still click through all dialogs without reading anything, but I'm not sure how we could prevent that

+1 for Tobias proposal

We decided to go with Tobias' proposal.

The export should be to a standard (not hidden) location, like $XDG_DATA_HOME. Does that exist on Windows, too?

In case of LDAP keyserver, upload should be the preselected default

Was mentioned before, but not written here:

The reasons should be in a fold-out section (like the Advanced choices elsewhere) with the always readable title "Reason for revocation (optional)". This way, the window will be less of a wall of text and concentrate on the important parts.

Gpg4win 4.4:
When a keyserver is configured you can now check a box to directly upload the revocation there:

Some questions (wishes):

• Will the upload also be done to an configured LDAP Server?
• Can the upload-checkbox setting be configure via the Windows registry?