The presentation of security levels 2 and 3 is very similar at present. This should be improved in a way which is easy to perceive at a glance.
Level 2 should get a different color, like yellow.
And a different icon would be good, too. I propose to only change the background of the check mark icon to yellow, too.
Edit 2020-03-21: it was decided to show level 3 by an additional check mark only.
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| rO4fb198b5b7d2 Fix T7079 by adding new level 3 icons | |||
For VSD I somewhat agree since this is the difference between a VD Compliant signature. For the community edition though level 2 is usually enough and should also be indicated as trustworthy. So I am currently in two minds about this.
Yellow indicates a warning. In the old days we used yellow in too many cases and people barely got a green. This raised more user questioned than it was helpful. There is also a problem with accessibility if we overload colors too much.
I can imagine a double check mark for level 3 for a large icon or even in the text line (similar to what is used by Conversations et al.)
In version Version VS-Desktop-3.3.0.0 a certificate imported via WKD is correctly shown as level 2 security:
After certification with one of my own keys it should be shown als level 3 AFAIK but it stays level 2. Even after restarting Kleopatra, its background processes and Outlook.
I'll have to check this with a VS-NfD compliant certificate, too, the one I used here is not.
And I'll have to check whether the fix for the icon is really included in this build and this might be a new bug introduced by it or what else causes this / triage when this might have been introduced.
with Version VS-Desktop-3.3.90.6-Beta:
The new Icon is included but I only saw it for a few seconds, now the security level is displayed wrong again as level 4, after I clicked on an other Mail an then back again.
The setup where a certificate should be shown as level 3 is:
After further testing:
The new level 3 icon is shown for most test cases. This ticket here is only for the new icon, therefore I'm setting this to done. I'll make a new ticket for the cases where the level is not detected correctly.