Comment 16 for bug 393645

> The encrypt and sign menu entries are used by less than 1% of users

Really? How did you measure that? I'm not saying that it is incorrect, but all the Ubuntu users that I know do use it regularly. I accept that "One Hundred Paper Cuts" is for non-advanced users, but Ubuntu does still have quite a technical user-base.

> simply do:
> # apt-get install seahorse-plugins

A lot of the paper cuts could be solved by typing something into a terminal, but that doesn't make them any less of an issue. Presumably people could have typed:
apt-get remove seahorse-plugins
to "fix" this before.

I use this option a lot. I think that comment 7 is by far the best approach - whatever statistics you make up, a good number of people who have a ~/.gnupg folder are likely to want these options.

I understand that this has now been "fixed". Which approach was taken?