Bell sound on gpg request

[ninetailedtori]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Pretty often, I've got rather large package batches to upgrade, but I'd like to review them. Unfortunately, sometimes I get busy with something else and forget.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be cool to get to have the option to play a bell sound when requesting GPG keys, like in sudoflags with -B, but I'm not sure whether this is possible.

Describe alternatives you've considered

If there was a gpg binary that was very functional, very secure, and had the ability to flag for a bell sound to play, I'd use that, but I don't know of one.

[jdholtz]

I'm not sure that something like that is built into gpg (and the Pacman maintainers don't want to add a bell option to Pacman prompts), but it may be possible to make a wrapper around the gpg binary to ring the bell. Something like:

#!/bin/bash

GPG_BIN="/usr/bin/gpg"

printf "\a"
exec "$GPG_BIN" "$@"

Then you can use this binary as gpgbin in yay's config.

An LLM should be able to give you a pretty reliable way to detect if GPG will need a passphrase too (there is a dry run option, for example) so it doesn't ring every time gpg is invoked.

[ninetailedtori]

I'm not sure that something like that is built into gpg (and the Pacman maintainers don't want to add a bell option to Pacman prompts), but it may be possible to make a wrapper around the gpg binary to ring the bell. Something like:

#!/bin/bash

GPG_BIN="/usr/bin/gpg"

printf "\a"
exec "$GPG_BIN" "$@"

Then you can use this binary as gpgbin in yay's config.

An LLM should be able to give you a pretty reliable way to detect if GPG will need a passphrase too (there is a dry run option, for example) so it doesn't ring every time gpg is invoked.

Hmm, it's possible to improve the wrapper. After all, since we're being passed the arguments, we can scan them to check the invocation type, and what action is being requested, and only on the correct ones fire a bell. Possible, possible. Let's see what we could do :3