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Re: [PATCH] Improve clarity/uniformity in compose menu's crypto display



On Wednesday, 14 April 2010 at 12:42, David Champion wrote:
> * On 14 Apr 2010, Brendan Cully wrote: 
> > 
> > I don't think it's clear what makes the security menu more deserving
> > of hints than others.
> 
> No objection to leaving that out, but the reason I did that is most of
> items on the compose menu have exactly one keystroke that more or less
> matches the initial of the field.  Security, if taken analogously, would
> lead you only to (S)/MIME, and (p)GP would be unindicated.  (I assume
> that's why the code formerly flipped the field name around depending on
> options.)

Yeah, I'm not crazy about the interface. ME and I were kicking around
the idea of having one menu for the security type (sign, encrypt,
both, sign as, encrypt with) and a different top-level menu for the
encryption type (inline, PGP/MIME, S/MIME).

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