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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Displays of Attachments
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-29 8:33:41
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On Sunday 28 April 2002 20:12, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 07:07:23PM +0200, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 April 2002 16:37, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > > and more used in the near future and in this case you quite often
> > > > will want to quickly access the Mime Tree for various reasons...
> > >
> > > Maybe the BSI people will use S/MIME. I doubt that home users will
> > > widely use S/MIME in the near future. They will use PGP/MIME instead.
> >
> > But - on the other hand - you are right: People today and in next months
> > do either not care about security at all or - most likely - have it PGP
> > based.
>
> IMO, PGP/MIME and S/MIME should be treated equal when designing UIs.
> They have lots in common (I believe the mime structure viewer makes
> sense for both) and it is yet not clear whether one method will outflank
> the other. Probably, both will play a role in the future.
> However, right now PGP users surely outnumber S/MIME users by a factor
> of 1000 or more - so I don't think we will see drastic changes in the
> next 12 or 24 month.

ACK.

Please add another comment: Does this mean you agree to us making the
"Mime Tree _below_ Message Viewer" layout the default one - or does that
mean you do /not/ like this idea?

Cheers,

Karl-Heinz

-- 
Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>

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