I just started learning to use Vaults. I was a bit confused at first, when I locked my first vault my_vault and it disappeared from the filesystem. I thought it had not been saved, so I created a folder my_vault in /home/myname/Vaults, thinking that would create a vault.
Then in the system tray applet, I tried to unlock my_vault but it said it wasn’t possible because /home/myname/Vaults is not empty. After emptying it I could access the vault again.
The whole thing could be made more intuitive I think, if interacting with vaults was more similar to interacting with folders. Here are a few suggestions to go in that direction:
- make locked vaults visible in /home/myname/Vaults, and when I try to open them the password prompt opens (instead of saying the folder is empty)
- generally make vaults manageable from the file explorer rather than the applet
- make /home/myname/Vaults read-only for normal users, so I can’t block my vault’s access by creating a folder there (that’s more about making it stupid-proof)