Hi This seems like a good description of Windows GUI for GnuPG. If I was looking for a GUI this is the information I would like to have. Could someone with access add it to the FAQ? The question could be "Does GnuPG for windows have a GUI?", possibly under the installation heading.
//Samuel On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:50:20PM -0600, Kurt Fitzner wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > which one of these > > - GPGshell > > - WinPT > > - GPGee > > > > is better for a starter with GPG > > First of all, let's get some definitions down because it can become > confusing. WinPT is both an application and a group of tools. The > application, Windows Privacy Tray, sits in the Windows task tray and > gives you a GnuPG interface from there. The group of tools is the tray > application bundled along with GnuPG itself. This distinction will > become important later... for now, though, when I say "WinPT" I mean the > tray application, not the group of tools. > > Now, to answer your question: GPG Shell is an ok program but not really > designed for the GnuPG beginner. What is does when you tell it to do > something is start the GngPG command for you and then dump you into a > command prompt with that GnuPG command running so you can finish it > (answer any questions GnuPG has for you). So, if you want to edit a > key, it doesn't have a GUI mechanism to do so - it drops you into the > GnuPG edit key command and you have to type all the key editing commands > in. For a new person, WinPT will be easier to use. It doesn't expose > quite as much of the inner workings of GnuPG - there are some things you > can't do with it, but what it does do is completely through a GUI. > > Now, as far as GPGee goes, it isn't intended as a "competitor" to WinPT, > but more as a complement. WinPT is a tray application that gives you a > key manager and lets you perform GPG operations on the clipboard and the > current window. GPGee isn't intended to do all that. It is only a > Windows explorer shell extension. It adds GnuPG commands to the windows > explorer right-click context menu. So, if you want to simple sign, > encrypt, or verify one or more files, GPGee makes that very easy. There > is no key management in it at all, so that would be something you would > do through WinPT. > > The reason I made the distinction between the WinPT tray application and > the WinPT group of tools, is that GPGee is going to become one of the > tools included in WinPT. Timo Schulz had a different shell extension > (WinFPSE) that was included in the WinPT bundle, but he wants to focus > more on the tray application, and I will focus on the explorer extension. > > Hopefully once GPGee is in the bundle things will become less confusing > for the new people just looking for a good front end. > > Kurt. > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
