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Kleopatra: Sign/encrypt window improvement (KF6)
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To make the sign/encrypt dialog clearer and more foolproof:

Make use of horizontal lines to separate the areas for signature and encryption. Probably add subheadings (maybe with an added icon padlock or pencil). Which has the advantage of saving text, too, like:

Encrypt 

  for me: 
  for others:

Re-introduce the checkbox for "encrypt to others" and place the checkboxes again before the dropdown fields.
All checkboxes are checked by default if the dialog is started via "sign/encrypt".

If you leave them all checked and click sign/encrypt without choosing an other recipient, an error window will come up with a message "Please choose at least one other recipient or deselect encryption for others." and the only option "OK" which closes the error dialog.

Edit 2025-06-26:
And please Fix the ALT shortcut in the "Sign / Encrypt", "Sign" and "Encrypt" button to S or E, respectively. One can hardly see the mark at the "i" and its unintuitive, anyway:

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External Link
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kleopatra/-/merge_requests/402
Version
Version 4.0.0.250370 (Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta125)

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ebo renamed this task from Draft: Kleopatra: Sing/encrypt window improvement (KF6) to Draft: Kleopatra: Sign/encrypt window improvement (KF6).Mar 6 2025, 12:15 PM
ebo triaged this task as Normal priority.
ebo created this task.

For illustration:

old KF5 version:

Current KF6 version (5.0.0-Beta190):

ebo renamed this task from Draft: Kleopatra: Sign/encrypt window improvement (KF6) to Kleopatra: Sign/encrypt window improvement (KF6).May 20 2025, 4:31 PM
ebo raised the priority of this task from Normal to High.Jun 26 2025, 2:33 PM
ebo updated the task description. (Show Details)

Edit 2025-06-26:
And please Fix the ALT shortcut in the "Sign / Encrypt", "Sign" and "Encrypt" button to S or E, respectively. One can hardly see the mark at the "i" and its unintuitive, anyway:

That's a bit tricky, since both S and E are already used for other shortcuts...

Maybe if we move "Sign as" from S to A,
and "Encrypt / Sign each file separately from E to... N? isn't really intuitive, but at least it's a less commonly used checkbox

TobiasFella mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Jul 21 2025, 9:56 AM
TobiasFella set External Link to https://invent.kde.org/pim/kleopatra/-/merge_requests/402.Jul 25 2025, 2:45 PM
TobiasFella moved this task from Backlog to WIP on the gpd5x board.
TobiasFella mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Jul 28 2025, 9:33 AM
TobiasFella mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Aug 4 2025, 9:51 AM
TobiasFella changed the task status from Open to Testing.Aug 19 2025, 3:16 PM
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TobiasFella mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Aug 25 2025, 9:47 AM

Current state in gpg4win-5.0.0-beta369 @ win10:

Looks good to me:

  • checkbox "encrypt for others" is readded
  • all checkboxes checked on start
  • error dialog on empty "encrypt for others"
  • accelerator keys changed:
    • Sign as
    • Sign / Encrypt
    • Sign
    • Encrypt

Open?

  • subheadings / icons
  • checkboxes and dropdowns in one row

Improvements?

  • remember checkbox state of "encrypt for others"?
ebo mentioned this in Unknown Object (Maniphest Task).Sep 15 2025, 9:20 AM
ebo moved this task from QA to Done on the gpd5x board.

We'll keep it as it is, for the improvement see T7814