A dichotomy of user-hostile software:
- Mainstream software: user-hostile because it has a dozen popups trying to upsell you / accept cookies / grant permission to sell your data
- OSS software: user-hostile because it expects you to know how to use GPG to sign a certificate on the command line, and fuck you if you don't know what any of those words mean
UX design? but it's a terminal app
@icedquinn @nolan IIRC UX is user experience surely the Command line is still a User interface therefore people should not be making assumptions.
don't interactive shell scripts exist for a reason along with environment variables to store a path
@zleap
Yes Nolan and Paul,
Very well identified.
We believe its called #GpgMadeEasy (or #GPGME), which is a plugin for applications that are designed to boost the #userExperience, for software designed to use it.
A person on #I2P (they serve an #eepsite) has developed a more user friendly system for standard #GPG operations. Their software is available at multiple location and is hosted at the #internetArchive also.
If you search available eepsites you'll find it quickly.
And a lot of GNU programs can be taken as horrible UX when compared to their equivalents.
Like wget, you want to save to a specific filename, that's -o right? Nope, that's for doing a log… GNU please, that's easily done with shell redirection…
And I'm not going to address GnuPG, the whole thing is ass backwards.
