Closed Bug 1757095 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Display creation date in addition to expiry date in Key Manager

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(MailNews Core :: Security: OpenPGP, enhancement)

enhancement

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
101 Branch

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(Reporter: nf, Assigned: snip, Mentored)

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Expired keys are already marked in gray and italic in the Key Manager. Display the expiration date by default on top of this is not super useful.

Instead, the creation date could be more useful to distinguish an old from a key.

Hello,

Yes, I guess this is something for which I can try to submit a patch :)

However, I'm afraid displaying the creation date (even with some extra text, such as “Created on XX/XX/XXXX”) instead of the expiry date in the “Expiry” column when the key is expired might be confusing for some users. One could change the column heading, of course, but we'd still have two types of dates in the same column, which I think might be confusing as well.

Maybe one could just add a “Created” column instead, with the creation date of each key in the keyring, just between the “Key ID” and the “Expiry” columns. Would that be an acceptable solution? Or did you have something else in mind?

Thanks!

SnipFoo.

Adding a Created column is what I'd do yes!

Also add an extra function to the keyRing module for sorting keys according
to their creation date.

Assignee: nobody → snip
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED

Well, here goes :)
Thanks!

Pushed by geoff@darktrojan.net:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/3d10838bb567
Add “Created” column with each key's creation date in Key Manager. r=mkmelin

Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 101 Branch
Summary: Display creation date instead of expiry date in Key Manager → Display creation date in addition to expiry date in Key Manager
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