[Enigmail] Enigmail fails with GnuPG2 + OpenPGP Card

[Erico Mendonça]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Brunschwig <
patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org> wrote:

> >
> > Actually there is: try to run it with the option "--version" and fetch
> > the first line.
> >
> > Here's the output for both:
> >
> >
> > [slaughter at slaughterhouse ~]$ gpg --version
>
>
> Right, that's what I do --but I don't want to do this _before_ the user
> clicks on OK.
>
>

It may sound stupid and inefficient, but some programs do it like this:

1. Monitor what is being typed on the field.
2. If the user stops typing for more than 2 seconds, try to check if the
binary exists (in our case, run it with --version)
3. update the status line (e.g. "Found GPG version x.x" or "invalid
executable")
4. repeat until success.

Or make the field "uneditable" and add a "Browse..." button to it. The check
will be made when the user ends the file selection dialog.

-- 
-- Erico
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