526759 - (Message Header) Windows XP theme: better metaphor for unknown sign

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

As suggest from Bryan in bug #525832 comment #6 I open a new bug for hdrSignUnknown.png and sbSignUnknown.png:

>I don't feel like the ? icons are a great metaphor but we could try to 
>create better icons in a separate bug for the next release.

Comment 1

[Andreas Nilsson (:andreasn)]

As someone who never encrypt my messages, I need some help with the metaphors. What does it do exactly and what implications does reading a unknown signed message have?

Comment 2

[Patrick Brunschwig]

A "unknown signed message" is a message that is signed by the sender, but since I (being recipient) don't have his public key I cannot verify the signature. This implies either of the following:
a) the sender has signed the message -> I don't know if the message is still 1:1 the same as the sender sent it
b) the sender didn't sign the message -> someone else added a potentially invalid signature, that I cannot verify.

Some people argue that a signature that cannot be verified has no meaning, since you can't derive any value from it (except from the fact that there is a signature).

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Mass move to the new theme component.

Comment 4

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

With TB 53 Windows XP is deprecated.