(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #82) > > - Is '-c' the best option name for "don't perform certificate validation"? > > Honestly i don't think spending much time on discussing the option name > makes much sense, we just need to document it properly and that's it.
It's vital to put thought into "naming things" before a poor decision becomes permanent because it becomes public. At the very least, "-c" suggests check and "-C" would often be the negative don't check, even if no -c option exists because it's the default. And then there's the issue Adrian raises. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740506 Title: verify digital signatures Status in Evince: Confirmed Status in Poppler: Confirmed Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evince This is a feature request to verify digital signatures. I'm receiving more and more digitally signed PDF's and evince already acknowledges them with: Signature Not Verified Digitally signed by <signer> Date: <time stamp> Reason: <reason> Location: <location> but it would be great if Evince would be integrated into the distro's ca-certificate infrastructure to verify these signatures. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/740506/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp