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Kleopatra: Configuration of the initial status of all checkboxes in the sign/encrypt dialog
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@ikloecker suggested in https://dev.gnupg.org/T7814#205501 to make the default status of the check boxes in the sign/encrypt dialog configurable.

Edit: 2025-10-15

There is currently only the setting "Use symmetric encryption only." in the "Crypto Operations" config tab in VSD. For the Gpg4win 5.0 series "Use only public key encryption" was recently added.
Which are hard for users to find in the unstructured list there.

All settings regarding the sign/encrypt operation defaults (apply also for the notepad) should be grouped together, in a group "Sign/Encrypt Defaults". We want to offer the following settings with these defaults:

  • password based encryption only
  • public key encryption only
  • remember settings from last sign / encrypt operation

Please consider a better logical order for all the options in that config tab while working on this, the current order seems arbitrary. We can then discuss the final sorting when there is a screenshot.

Besides: The title of the sign/encrypt dialog shall not change, regardless which options are selected

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• ebo triaged this task as Normal priority.Oct 1 2025, 4:29 PM
• ebo created this task.
• ebo created this object with edit policy "Contributor (Project)".
• ebo added a comment.Wed, Oct 15, 1:34 PM

We had considered and rejected adding below the above configuration a marked section (like e.g. with a frame) showing the options in the order they appear in the sign/encrypt window:

  • Sign as
  • Encrypt for me
  • Encrypt for others
  • Encrypt with password
  • Encrypt / Sign each file separately

Another point which was mentioned but discarded:

Instead of the first three proposed options we could add a drop down menu behind every of the settings in the section wit the options:

  • start always with this setting
  • remember setting from the last operation
  • force this setting
• ebo renamed this task from Draft: Kleopatra: Configuration of the "start status" of all checkboxes in the sign/encrypt dialog to Kleopatra: Configuration of the "start status" of all checkboxes in the sign/encrypt dialog.Wed, Oct 15, 2:11 PM
• ebo updated the task description. (Show Details)
• alexk renamed this task from Kleopatra: Configuration of the "start status" of all checkboxes in the sign/encrypt dialog to Kleopatra: Configuration of the initial status of all checkboxes in the sign/encrypt dialog.Mon, Oct 20, 4:36 PM