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.

Arghh, a GPGME_DEBUG=3 which shows basic I/O preparation does not exhibit the bug.

Fixing gpg is easy but there is some bug lingering in gpgme which might be a recent regression. An strace shows

Those options where originally intended for debugging but your suggestion makes sense. I also add this to most other tools.

At the failed attempt I notice a DEVINFO_STATUS removal soon after the SWITCHCARD. This is related to the reader status file and triggered by ccid_slot_status. --debug ipc.app,reader might be a better selection of debug flags here.

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

I think we should close this bug or re-purpose it to silence those warnings in common cases.

That could be fixed in src/argparse.c:set_opt_arg by adding and endptr to the strtol calls and check that only white space follows. However, there is some risk of regression with this approach. Maybe just display a warning?

Removing gpgrt because we meanwhile have full utf-8 support there.

With today's release of npth everything should be set.