Michael I know that trusting and signing are technically two separate 
processes, but I also say again that from a logical point of view trusting 
should follow signing, that is I should assign a trust judgement to key (that 
is to person) that I know that are valid (that is the owner of that key is the 
person that I think he should be). 
The only reason I see to let the user to trust a key without signing it is 
related to a scenario in which the user (owner of the keyring) wants to assign 
trust judgements to people that he knows using the keys that are related to 
these people regardless to the fact that these key are really valid or not. 
That is collecting a sort of people trust list. In this scenario however that 
"dangerous" thing is that if the user discovers that a key isn't valid he 
should delete it but doing this he should also delete the trust judgement to 
that person; to the other side, in order to preserve trust judgement, he 
shouldn't delete the key once discovered that it isn't valid, but doing this he 
should have in his keyrings not valid keys in which either keys not yet checked 
for validity or keys already checked for validity (but not deleted) should 
cohabit togheter.
I think actual situation is misleading for the user and not very useful.



** Tags added: whishlist

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a key is put in "trusted keys" without it is signed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328735
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