More changes:

• If no certificates are found then an overlay "No certificates found" is shown on top of the certificate list.
• I have removed the confusing and unhelpful message "x certificates without name and mail address were ignored".

Fixed in master.

Changes so far:

• I have removed the error message that was shown when nothing was found on the OpenPGP key server. We don't show an error for S/MIME or WKD lookup. And I think the error message was just annoying. The user sees whether something was found.
• Kleopatra now shows a simple progress dialog with the text "Searching for matching certificates ..." and with up to 3 steps (for the up to three lookups). I don't think anybody (except testers) are interested in details where something is looked up.

So, what is the state of this. Did a change already land in Kleopatra and how can we assure that all binaries have a W32INFO_PRODUCTNAME in their rc file?

Testing:

• Verify that T5359: Kleopatra: Loop in DeviceInfoWatcher with GnuPG 2.3 on Windows doesn't happen anymore.
• When you remove a smart card then Kleopatra should remove it from the smart card view.
• When you insert a smart card and then access it with gpg or gpg-card then Kleopatra should add the smart card to the smart card view.

Changes:

• The maximum allowed difference of the expiration between subkey and primary key is now +/-1 hour.
• If the user has no choice whether to update the subkeys together with the primary key (because either all subkeys will be skipped because they don't fulfil the conditions mentioned in the first comment or because the subkeys share the expiration of the primary key) then the checkbox is not shown. That was easier to implement and it doesn't confuse the users with a "choice" they are not allowed to change.

Done.

this should be easy since we already start gpg-agent on start

needs to be fixed soon. But we don't have a tag for Gpg4win 5 or whatever we call a kf6 based gpg4win.

Instead of "The key hasn't changed." Kleopatra now displays "The update was skipped because no keyserver is configured."

In T6761#183780, @ebo wrote:

But in the case "Refresh OpenPGP keys" (in Kleopatras certificate Details) there is no error message but instead ~"the key is unchanged".

See T7034

with Version 3.2.2.231170+git~ (Gpg4win-4.3.1-beta12):

• no error message any more with keyserver = none
• correct error message when choosing "publish on server"

But in the case "Refresh OpenPGP keys" (in Kleopatras certificate Details) there is no error message but instead ~"the key is unchanged".

Version 3.2.2.231170+git~ (Gpg4win-4.3.1-beta12): works, when entering a mail address the search result is presented very fast now. When entering only a name, nothing happens. So functionality is there, the improvement in UX is T6493.

I have backported the commits to gpg4win/23.10 for VSD 3.2.

Keep in mind that the "Certificate Details" can also be shown for search results in the server lookup. In this case not all properties are available, e.g. there is no information about certifications, so that it might not make sense to show the certifications tab. Or we show the tab (so that the users don't wonder why it's missing), but display a message explaining that this information is not available before the certificate is imported.

I have backported the relevant commits to gpg4win/23.10 for VSD 3.2. I left out the commit that adds a tooltip.

As part of this change the possibility to "Learn NetKey v3 Card Certificates" via the system tray icon has been removed.

I think we should separate this into two tasks:

For better action names see T6420: Kleopatra: improve layout of and text in smartcard management view.

For VSD there should at least no info message be shown - which has to be clicked away - when keyserver is set to "None"

While we see issues with gpg-agent not starting in different circumstances (like with the empty keylist) I would like to keep this task here about the smart card tab.

Thanks for the rort

This is just another sympton with the same root cause. Therefore I have closed this as duplicate.

Interesting. I didn't even know that this feature exists.