Kgpg problems

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 06:20:38 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 22/07/2014 03:00, support wrote:
> > Sinclair,
> > 
> > My advice would be just stick with gnupg (files) and enigmail
> > (email). Seahorse is deprecated / not maintained but actually still
> > works fine too if you want GUI based key management features of 
any
> > kind.  Its pretty much fine.
> > 
> > Nate
> > 
> > On 20/07/2014 20:30, O. Sinclair wrote:
> >> Friends,
> >> 
> >> being on 14.04 I have since somewhere in 2007 sometimes used
> >> (k)gpg to sign files and the odd email.
> >> 
> >> I admit it is not very often and when I now read of someone
> >> having issues with kpgp I discovered that I too had serious
> >> issues.
> >> 
> >> On starting the program it could not find or import my keyrings
> >> and I eventually had to delete my .conf file and reimport the
> >> original version of my key files. That I luckily have kept all
> >> these years...
> >> 
> >> Kgpg was still complaining that it could not import the files but
> >> DID import them.
> >> 
> >> I am not too overly impressed... for those who do use it I think
> >> it is pretty important that it actually DOES work when you want
> >> to use it?
> 
> Well, in this case gnupg commmand line also had problems and kgpg 
is
> depending on it. What went wrong I have no idea, as I wrote I had to
> delete the gnupg.conf file twice and reimport my keypair before 
things
> started working again.
> 
> Kgpg is "just" a gui for gnupg. As for enigmail I use it for
> thunderbird just as I use Kleopatra for Kmail. Yes I use both mail
> clients in order to separate work mail and other mail

Since kgpg and kleopatra are both front-ends, could they possibly be 
fighting each other somehow, each one changing the gpg.conf file? 


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