Bug#240837: kopete should put encrypted messages in a queue instead of using tons of popup's
Package: kopete
Version: 0.7.4-2
Severity: normal
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-meg-12.0
Locale: LANG=fr_BE@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE@euro
Versions of packages kopete depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.1.5-1 KDE core libraries
ii khelpcenter 4:3.1.5-2 KDE Help Center
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
pn libaudio2 Not found.
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-1 GCC support library
ii libglib1.2 1.2.10-9 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk1.2 1.2.10-16 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets fo
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpcre3 4.5-1.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
pn libssl0.9.7 Not found.
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
pn libxcursor1 Not found.
pn libxft2 Not found.
ii libxml2 2.6.7-1 GNOME XML library
pn libxrender1 Not found.
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.2-3 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii xlibmesa3-gl [libgl1] 4.2.1-12.1 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii xmms 1.2.9-1 Versatile X audio player that look
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
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The problem happens when using Jabber (but I think it is the same with the other modules) and encrypted communication using GPG (through KGPG seamless integration).
When my contact starts a new discussion in encrypted mode, KGPG/Kopete asks me the passphrase to start decryption.
As there is some kind of RAM caching for the passphrase, it is able to decrypt all the following sentences.
The problem happens when my contact tells me more than one thing before I have the time to enter the passphrase (imagine typing mistakes, slow users, ...)
When doing that, Kopete use one blocking popup for each sentence, thus blocking access to the preceding popups.
In this way, I have to enter my passphrase for each sentence until I enter it for the first so that Kopete becomes auto-magically able to decypher the following messages.
As each popup is blocking, I "decypher" (understand : I type the passphrase for) each message in a Last In First Out (LIFO) order.
This is quite boring.
The solution is : the messages should be stored in a queue waiting for the first to be decyphered.
Thank you.
Michel Nolard.
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