Re: thunderbird needs graphical pinentry to use external gnupg for encrypting emails

On Mon, 2024-11-18 at 21:58 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
> On 11/18/24 21:42, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing 
> List) wrote:
> > I just cannot see any way we can ever "fix" this.  Raising gcr to
> > recommended is not an option because GNOME is not used widely by BLFS
> > users.
> > 
> > 
> Maybe we can add some words on pinentry page, saying that the pinentry
> built here is not full, and can be rebuilt to be more functionally after 
> installing some graphical environments, or on the thunderbird and git 
> page? it's really borning without this information.

How's it different from all the optional dependencies in the book?  Or
are we going to add some text everywhere for every optional dependency?

And the text suggested by you is still incorrect.  For LXQt or XFCE even
if you rebuild pinentry after building the entire LXQt or XFCE it still
won't work.

You have to build pinentry-qt6 (as the book does not have GTK-2 or Qt-
{4,5} anymore, and the priority of pinentry-fltk is even lower than
curses) if you want to use pinentry for Thunderbird or other GUI apps in
these two DEs. But pinentry-qt6 requires the KDE Frameworks which is
unlikely to be wanted by a user of LXQt or XFCE.

The pinentry thing is just a mess.

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Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University

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