[Enigmail] Enigmail on Ubuntu 9.04

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
>> Andy Ruddock wrote:
>>> Irritating isn't it!
>> Thank you, Andy.  This definitely should be entered in Launchpad as a
>> bug against Enigmail.  If Ubuntu is going to have their Enigmail package
>> use their own passphrase manager, Ubuntu should also remove from
>> Enigmail all passphrase caching options -- otherwise users will just get
>> mighty confused.
> 
>> Would you like to enter this one, or shall I?
> 
> 
> No, it's not a bug of any system. It's simply the "problem" that Ubunutu
> starts gpg-agent (or actually seahorse-agent) at login, which is
> obviously before Thunderbird/Enigmail. If Enigmail detects a gpg-agent,
> then it uses the agent and the idle times are irrelevant (because
> Enigmail has no control over gpg-agent).
> 
> See also bug 20873 <https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20873>
> 
> The only solution I have (implemented in trunk) is to warn that
> gpg-agent might use different idle time settings.

I hate replying to myself, but I forgot one thing here: users are free
to disable gpg-agent (or seahorse-agent), therefore removing the
corresponding options from Enigmail in Ubuntu is a not a clever thing to do.

- -Patrick
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