Request for comments on autocrypt translation strings

Petr Pisar petr.pisar at atlas.cz
Sun Aug 4 14:10:42 UTC 2019


On Sun, Aug 04, 2019 at 06:16:26AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> It may be helpful to also look at 
> <https://muttmua.gitlab.io/mutt/manual-dev.html#autocryptdoc> in the 
> manual.
> 
That's a good description. Just a nit pick, in "Scanning during this step will
temporarily disable the header cache will opening each mailbox." the second
"will" breaks my English parser. Probably it should be "when" or "while".

> >msgid "Create an initial autocrypt account?"
> >
> >This sounds like an account of some on-line service. If it is about 
> >creating a record in the autocrypt directory, why not call it a record 
> >or an entry?  I don't like the word "account".
> 
> Account is the terminology used by Autocrypt in their specification. 
> I'd really rather not change it at this point, because the database, 
> data structures, interface, and Autocrypt all call it that.
>
I see. It's a sender's identity.

> >msgid "Generating autocrypt key..."
> >
> >Does the new feature use a completly new and separate PGP key from a 
> >key the users already has in his private GPG keyring?
> 
> Yes, and it does so in a separate keyring stored in $autocrypt_dir.
> 
Great.

I have no objections to the translation messages.

-- Petr
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