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GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by chmars »

tvon wrote: post #24
mike-cardwell wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People should probably use operating systems written by people who care about backwards compatibility. Ideally ones that are developed in the open.

If I am understanding the problem correctly... Apple implemented app signing by default in 10.8. Users can either turn this off in System Preferences (removing the error), or the LibreOffice team can pay the $100 annual fee to get a properly signed app.

That's correct, or users could use the right-click workaround.

Most users, however, won't know this workaround and it shouldn't be necessary to lessen the security of OS X just to use (or update) LibreOffice.

I'm sure the Document Foundation could afford the necessary app-signing.

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by chmars »

ppierald wrote: post #31
chmars wrote: post #7

Great tool but who wants to way months after each major OS X release to use it (again)? GPGTools is not alone with this problem. LibreOffice for example can't probably be installed by many users because the binary isn't signed Apple-style. Many users will get an error message by OS X and just forget about LibreOffice …

The GPGTools team had a paid version (beta) out for months. I felt the functionality was worth the minor investment and also ensured that there was some path forward for future revs.

A beta version is nice but it's a beta, i.e., it's not thought for use on productive systems. Paying is fine too but there're always developer releases of OS X and the GPGTools developers should therefore to get their app ready on or shortly after the release of a new major OS X version.

At the same time, I assume that the developers are well aware of the delay issue. So what exactly causes the delay? Is there any way to support the GPGTools developers in this regard?

Re: GPGTools – OpenPGP Tools for Apple OS X

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Post by vsviridov »

gnaffle wrote: post #11
vsviridov wrote: post #4

Finally, with Lion support... Although I've since switched to Thunderbird/Enigmail, which works with older version just fine..

I did that, unfortunately the search feature in Thunderbird is just terrible compared to Mail.app (maybe there is a plugin I don't know about?)

Yeah, it's a bit weird, but I usually just click "Display as List" on search results pane and then it becomes more usable...
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