On 4/17/21 11:54 PM, Javier via arch-general wrote: > On 4/9/21 4:46 AM, NicoHood via arch-general wrote: >> On 4/8/21 9:17 PM, Mike Cloaked via arch-general wrote: >>> There is a new announcement of a drop-in replacement library for rnp in >>> Thunderbird, that is based on code at the Sequoia project: >>> >>> https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/04/08/202103-a-new-backend-for-thunderbird/ >>> >>> >>> This would look very promising as a way to recover so much functionality >>> that was dropped in the current Thunderbird builds for OpenPGP >>> support. It >>> would seem that building sequoia/octopus and using the resulting library >>> would allow a version of Thunderbird to be built that has significantly >>> enhanced support for integration with openPGP keyrings, and also support >>> autcrypt. >>> >>> It might be really nice if a version of Thunderbird was built for the >>> arch >>> repos with this library supporting encryption and signing instead of the >>> current rnp implementation. Does anyone else think this would be a good >>> project to work on? >>> >> >> I like the idea! I have not (re)enabled GPG support since the update >> because of varios reasons. A local keyring integration is just super >> important! >> > > I also think the same. I do actually use GPG keyring for my private > keys, but I believe that's not enough, and I'd like to use GPG instead, > but TB made that impossible, or so I believed, until reading this, :) > > Unfortunately, I'd guess Arch maintainers don't like patching upstream > SW, and I understand since I like as much vanilla SW as possible, this > would be one good exception for me, :) > > Thanks ! > I am not sure if that is what you (Javier) are actually doing, but I found a (simple but hidden) way to still use the GPG keyring without any thunderbird modifications. I was not aware of that before, so I'd like to share: https://blog.nicohood.de/use-thunderbird-78-with-system-gnupg-keyring Cheers, Nico
