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Kleopatra: show a progress window when updating a certificate
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When checking out https://dev.gnupg.org/T7636 I found that trying to update a certificate takes a very long time if there is no network.

For comparison, with network connection 2 gpg processes start, 1or 2 seconds after the first of them ends, the result window comes up.
Its then ~3-4 seconds until the result window is there, there is no progress info window. It's debatable if some kind of indicator is needed for a wait of this length.

Without network, the wait is much longer, ~2 minutes on my machine. Here the lack of a progress window really feels like a bug.

gpg log (for a key with 2 user IDs which was imported from WKD originally):

2025-05-14 15:25:26 gpg[8340] enabled debug flags: memstat
2025-05-14 15:25:26 gpg[8340] enabled compatibility flags:
2025-05-14 15:25:26 gpg[8340] using pgp trust model
2025-05-14 15:25:26 gpg[9140] enabled debug flags: memstat
2025-05-14 15:25:26 gpg[9140] enabled compatibility flags:
2025-05-14 15:26:16 gpg[8340] error retrieving 'XXX1@gnupg.com' via WKD: Server indicated a failure
2025-05-14 15:26:16 gpg[8340] error reading key: Server indicated a failure
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] keyserver receive failed: Unknown error
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] keydb: handles=0 locks=0 parse=0 get=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140]        build=0 update=0 insert=0 delete=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140]        reset=0 found=0 not=0 cache=0 not=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] kid_not_found_cache: count=0 peak=0 flushes=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] sig_cache: total=0 cached=0 good=0 bad=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] objcache: keys=0/0/0 chains=0,0..0 buckets=0/0 attic=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] objcache: uids=0/0/0 chains=0,0..0 buckets=0/0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=0 polls=0/0 added=0/0
              outmix=0 getlvl1=0/0 getlvl2=0/0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] rndjent stat: collector=0x0000000000000000 calls=0 bytes=0
2025-05-14 15:26:30 gpg[9140] secmem usage: 0/32768 bytes in 0 blocks
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] error retrieving 'XXX2@gnupg.com' via WKD: Server indicated a failure
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] error reading key: Server indicated a failure
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] keydb: handles=0 locks=0 parse=0 get=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340]        build=0 update=0 insert=0 delete=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340]        reset=0 found=0 not=0 cache=0 not=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] kid_not_found_cache: count=0 peak=0 flushes=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] sig_cache: total=0 cached=0 good=0 bad=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] objcache: keys=0/0/0 chains=0,0..0 buckets=0/0 attic=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] objcache: uids=0/0/0 chains=0,0..0 buckets=0/0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] random usage: poolsize=600 mixed=0 polls=0/0 added=0/0
             outmix=0 getlvl1=0/0 getlvl2=0/0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] rndjent stat: collector=0x0000000000000000 calls=0 bytes=0
2025-05-14 15:27:06 gpg[8340] secmem usage: 0/32768 bytes in 0 blocks

Result window:

Please add a progress window so that the user sees that something is happening.

Details

External Link
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kleopatra/-/merge_requests/386
Version
Gpg4win-5.0.0-beta190

Revisions and Commits

rKLEOPATRA Kleopatra
rKLEOPATRA4542312506e5 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRAc186834ea490 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRA3f5321d01e05 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRA4bbc9aee03d4 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRAa9871a56c642 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRA4ffe2b3fc441 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates
rKLEOPATRAd85291a8ff81 Show a progress dialog when updating certificates

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• ebo renamed this task from Kleopatra: Trying to update a certificat takes too much time if there is no network to Kleopatra: Trying to update a certificate takes too much time if there is no network.Wed, May 14, 3:55 PM
• ebo triaged this task as Normal priority.
• ebo created this task.
• ebo created this object with edit policy "Contributor (Project)".
• ikloecker added a subscriber: • ikloecker.Thu, May 15, 9:11 AM

It's pretty much impossible to speed up the situation of unavailable network because network access typically uses long timeouts because networks can be notoriously slow to respond. The only thing we can do is show a progress window so that the users know that Kleopatra is actually doing something.

• ebo renamed this task from Kleopatra: Trying to update a certificate takes too much time if there is no network to Kleopatra: show a progress window when update a certificate.Thu, May 15, 3:06 PM
• ebo renamed this task from Kleopatra: show a progress window when update a certificate to Kleopatra: show a progress window when updating a certificate.
• ebo updated the task description. (Show Details)
• TobiasFella claimed this task.Tue, May 20, 3:04 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRAd85291a8ff81: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Tue, May 20, 3:49 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRA4ffe2b3fc441: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Tue, May 20, 4:12 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRAa9871a56c642: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Tue, May 27, 3:47 PM
• TobiasFella moved this task from Backlog to WIP on the gpd5x board.Tue, May 27, 3:48 PM
• TobiasFella set External Link to https://invent.kde.org/pim/kleopatra/-/merge_requests/386.
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRA4bbc9aee03d4: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Wed, May 28, 1:15 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRA3f5321d01e05: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Wed, May 28, 2:24 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRAc186834ea490: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Wed, May 28, 2:46 PM
• TobiasFella added a commit: rKLEOPATRA4542312506e5: Show a progress dialog when updating certificates.Wed, May 28, 3:19 PM