Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1523 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Petr Uzel said the following on 03/18/2010 05:54 AM:

> Yes, that's expected. Most likely I wasn't clear before.  You are
> right that in such case it is pinentry-gtk-2, what is 'selected' by
> /usr/bin/pinentry script. But since it figures out there is no
> $DISPLAY, it runs pinentry-curses-like interface which is embedded
> into pinentry-gtk-2 binary (as well as to other graphical pinentry's).

If that's the case then the if/elsif tree is pointless.
First, because it will never get to pinentry-curses and secondly if the
-curses code is embedded in the GUI versions, why bother having a -cures
version anyway.

There's something here that's either pretty dumb or doesn't make sense.


> You can verify this by doing the following at tty2:
>
> gpg --sign some_file -> pinentry-curses dialog appears, don't close it
> switch to another console and issue
> ps aux | grep pinentry -> it shows it is actually pinentry-gtk-2,
>                           which does the curses-like interface.

Done.  It is so :-)




> > So if -gtk-2 or -qt4 or -qt exist they well be used
> > EVEN IF KDE IS NOT DETECTED.
>
> And what would you suggest to use instead?

As I said, it the -curses version in embedded then any of them will do
and the test and if/elseif tree are pointless.


> > I think this is WRONG !
>
> Pinentry-curses is used as a fallback only if there is no graphical
> pinentry installed. That's intentional. Since every graphical
> pinentry provides also embedded pinentry-curses interface,
> this is fine IMHO.

So why have all those packages?



> > The test for KDE only happens if DISPLAY is set.
>
> If DISPLAY is not set, why should we care about KDE/GNOME? It
> even does not make sense. Or am I missing something?
>
> > So what about other window managers?
> Sorry, I don't get this question.

I phrased that badly.

If DISPLAY is set then there is _some_ windows manager running.
How to choose between the one for Gnome and the one for KDE?
Or something else.?

Oh, right. Gtk-2 is enough.
Which gets back to my original question, why have more than one if Gtk-2
can work for KDE (It does I just tested it) and has the -curses code in it.

Why have the shell script?  Why have -qt and -qt4 when just one package
will do the job?



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