Seahorse is terrible. What exactly is its purpose nowadays? It seems to have lost a lot of functionality it used to have. Now when I launch it, all it does is list my keys. I cannot create new keys. I cannot encrypt or decrypt files. All I can do is look at my keyring. In the past it allowed you to create keys, and it also fit into the Ubuntu menu so that you could right-click a file and hit "encrypt." This functionality is completely gone now. So, again, what is the point of it?
But the biggest problem with it is that it caches my GPG passphrase indefinitely and there's no way to turn that off. This is a huge security risk. I leave my machine on 24/7 and I do *not* want my gpg key to be unprotected 24/7.
I am thinking of uninstalling it and just using gpg-agent.
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