[Winpt-commits] r242 - trunk/Doc

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Thu Jun 29 13:18:27 CEST 2006


Author: twoaday
Date: 2006-06-29 13:18:27 +0200 (Thu, 29 Jun 2006)
New Revision: 242

Modified:
   trunk/Doc/winpt.texi
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Modified: trunk/Doc/winpt.texi
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--- trunk/Doc/winpt.texi	2006-06-29 11:15:55 UTC (rev 241)
+++ trunk/Doc/winpt.texi	2006-06-29 11:18:27 UTC (rev 242)
@@ -475,4 +475,70 @@
 take a look into the GNU Privacy Handbook.
 Just a last work on Key Pairs, they are automatically marked as
 "Ultimate" because the key belongs to you and you trust it implicit.
+
+ at section The File Manager
+
+ at subsection Introduction
+The File Manager is no replacement for an Explorer Extension.
+If you secure your files frequently and you want to do this
+fast and easy, I suggest to install GPGee. It is a program
+which integrates itself into the explorer and provide menu
+entries in the context menu of files and directory. But the
+File Manager can be very useful if you just want to decrypt
+and/or encrypt some files without additional programs. You
+can find the File Manager via the symbol in the taskbar,
+right click and then "File Manager".
+
+ at subsection An Overview of the GUI
+First there are different ways to add (open) files in the
+Key Manager. The easiest way is to use drag and drop to
+add files into the File Manager. Just drag a file from the
+explorer and drop it into the File Manager window. The second
+way is to use File->Open. A dialog opens which is common for
+all "File Open" operations in most Windows application. Now
+you can select one or more files and confirm. The files will
+be automatically added to the File Manager window. The main
+window consists of a listview with three rows. 
+
+The first row is the status of the file. It can be "ENCRYPTED",
+"SIGNED", "PUBKEY", "SECKEY", "SIG" or "UNKNOWN". Dependent on 
+the file status, the File Manager offers different choices. For example
+"SIG" enables the verify options in the (popup) menu. "UNKNOWN" is
+the default for all plaintext files.
+The second row is the file name. And the last row is the status of 
+the operation. It can be either "", "SUCCESS" or "FAILED". An empty status
+means no operation was started yet. FAILED indicates that the 
+GnuPG operation failed. In this case an error message was issued before.
+
+Now it follows an example:
+We assume that user wants to encrypt "c:\My Ideas\GPG GUI.txt".
+Drag the file from the Explorer and drop it into the open File
+Manager, the main window. The file will be added and recognized
+as "UNKNOWN". Now we select the file and right click, a popup
+menu is shown and we select "Encrypt". An new dialog is opened
+which looks similar to the Clipboard Encryption dialog. Just
+select the recipients and confirm. In contrast to clipboard encryption,
+file encryption offers some more extra options. They are described
+later. And hour glass will be shown as long as GnuPG takes to encrypt
+the file. When the procedure is done, the third row should be change
+to "SUCCESS" and the first row to "ENCRYPTED".
+
+ at subsection General Options
+Now we describe the general options which are possible in some
+File Manager dialogs.
+
+ at itemize
+
+ at item Text Output
+When this option is checked, the output will be encoded in ASCII armor.
+This can be useful if the file should be transfered via email. The
+size of the output file is larger than the usual binary output.
+
+ at item Wipe Original
+If this option is checked, the original file will be deleted after
+successfull encryption. This can be useful if data should not be
+available in plaintext any longer on a machine.
+
+ at end itemize
+
 @bye



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