On Friday, January 17, 2020 12:51:35 PM MST Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Sarah Finn <sfinn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I hope you are all well. > > > > > > > > I would like to invite you to contribute to our new initiative: AAA > > replacement login. > > > > > > I’ll offer a couple of suggestions: > > Right now, I enter my Fedora developer password into GNOME Online > Accounts. It regularly stops working with a worthless message and I > have to re-enter my password. Maybe it could remember enough of a > secret to re-authenticate by itself for a while. > > And I have a user story: Andy wants to use a password manager to store > his password for an account in the Online Accounts list. When it’s > time to log in, Andy clicks the account and a system modal dialog > appears asking for a password. Andy would like to click the account in > the password manager and copy the password, but he can’t, because the > dialog is system modal. So instead, Andy grumbles, dismisses the > dialog, copies the password, and then tries to get the dialog to > reappear before the copied password is auto-cleared from the > clipboard. Andy also wonders why the system modal dialog is not > visually consistent with the Online Accounts application at all. > > Yes, this is a bit snarky, but there’s a reason that Microsoft > separated system modal dialog boxes decades ago. The fact that GNOME > supports this grotesque anti-pattern and NetworkManager uses it does > not justify using it in anything else. That only applies to GNOME. There is a simple solution here. Don't use GNOME. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
