On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:17:46AM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:04:49AM +0200 or thereabouts, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> The mutt version in Debian Sarge (Unstable) is 1.5.6.
>>
>> I used to be somewhat irritated with the previous behaviour of this menu
>> (in 1.4), since switching from sign-and-encrypt to sign-only required
>> two actions. I was quite pleased with the behaviour in 1.5 since it now
>> toggles, at least I was pleased until I read the mail below.
>>
>> I have to say I agree 100% percent with Derek. The menu should be made
>> clearer. Thinking back I found out about the new behaviour by mistake, I
>> was *lucky* to notice that the buttons now toggled rather than just
>> turning it on. I would be in favour of having the following menu
>> (almost straight copy from below, (c)lear rather then (f)orget):
>
>Actually, I found it rather intutitive and I recently learned how to
>use GPG with mutt. I don't know how hard it is really to figure out
>that it's toggable, if you have the e-mail in front of you displaying
>the GPG encrytion header.
So then you were lucky enough to not have to experience the *changing*
of the behaviour.
>So, I would ask the developers NOT to change this behaviour. It's
>prefectly acceptable as is IMHO. This is hardly a security issue in my
>view!
I am not really agains the *behaviour* of the menu but the menu itself.
If pressing a key will toggle a setting then the menu should say that it
*toggles*. Wouldn't you prefer a tick-box over a regular button in a GUI
application in this case?
If you don't consider the users' privacy to be a security issue, then it
isn't a security issue.
>BTW, please trim your attributions in the future, and please don't top post.
Sorry, it's a bad habit I've picked up at work due to most of my
colleagues using inferior mail clients.
/M
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