On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 21:59, d...@fifthhorseman.net said: > * new users see the prompt and think they need to enter something > there, without understanding why or what to put there. This leads to > people either making a witticism (e.g. "No Comment"), repeating their
I have only seen a few of these comments; thus I don't think it is a real problem. I use the comment failed mainly to indicate a test key and I have seen other sensible usages as well. Many might nor know that there is a help feature for every input field: GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key. Real name: ddddd Email address: dddd@dddd Comment: ? Please enter an optional comment. The characters "(" and ")" are not allowed. In general there is no need for a comment. Comment: but many more users are using a GUI for key generation and thus it is up to the GUI to preset the comment field. For example GPA uses in non-advanced mode a wizard dialog for key generation and that one does not ask for comment. I don't have any strong feelings about this, however, here is my own proposal: GnuPG needs to construct a user ID to identify your key. Real name: ddddd Email address: dddd@dddd You selected this USER-ID: "ddddd <dddd@dddd>" Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? c Comment: test key You selected this USER-ID: "ddddd (test key) <dddd@dddd>" Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? q No expert option and no translation changes required, just one more key stroke to enter a comment. The drawback is as with the --expert option: we will receive bug reports like "I can't enter a comment anymore" ;-). Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users