Bug#386547: kmail: display of secure messages is bulky
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.3-3
Severity: wishlist
The display of GPG or S/MIME-secured messages is extremely bulky. It
draws a box, or sometimes several nested boxes, with a different
colour around the secured parts of the message. This is visually
unappealing. Also the header above this box contains too many details
(key IDs, verification status etc) which is usually not interesting
and wastes a lot of space.
This is a very unattractive way to display messages which makes secure
e-mail really hard to read.
The security information should be much less invasive - check out
Thunderbird for example. A small status bar, coloured according to
security status, should be enough. The details can be hidden behind a
clickable icon, as is standard practise with web browsers and e-mail
clients.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-rc4-kelev
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.4-2 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.4-3 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.3-3 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.8-2 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-7 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-13 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.3-3 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.3-3 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.3-3 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.3-3 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.3-3 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.3-3 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.3-3 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.2 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-4 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.0-4 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-8 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-5 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-4 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.4-2 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.3-3 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii procmail 3.22-16 Versatile e-mail processor
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