Evolution 2.4 with Inline PGP Support
I upgraded my home desktop to Ubuntu Breezy over the last day or so. Ran one major issue in that I needed to run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg before I had X again after rebooting.
Apart from that everything seems to be much the same, the only really visible things I’ve noticed so far is usplash as the system boots (don’t know if it’s just me, but it makes it feel 10 times slower!) and Evolution has a new icon.
I’m quite pleased with Evolution in Breezy, mainly because it is Evolution 2.4 which contains the patches that I wrote to support inline signed and encrypted GPG messages. It’s always a nice warm fuzzy feeling when your code makes it into something useful.
Congrats on getting your code into Evolution. It is a nice feeling to get your code published.
Ian
Comment by Ian McDonald — September 14, 2005 @ 10:14 am
I’ve installed Breezy but for the life of me can’t figure out how to get inline pgp working with 2.4 is there a trick I should be aware of?
Comment by D. Johnson — October 28, 2005 @ 8:33 am
Nope, Breezy ships Evolution 2.4.1 by default which contains all the patches. Whenever you receive an inline PGP signed/encrypted mail it should automatically be processed and displayed with the appropriate information.
Note that Evolution still doesn’t support sending inline encrypted or signed messages. This is because the format is fairly broken and Evolution already supports the superior PGP/MIME method of signing / encrypting.
Comment by matt — October 28, 2005 @ 8:43 am