On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:48 AM Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 13:29 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Andrew Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It isn't just you. I HATE that modal dialog. I actively dislike
> modal dialogs in general, but that particular one has tripped me up so
> many times....
So do I, but it has nothing at all to do with this. That's a GNOME UI
choice. The authentication system GNOME is talking to has no control
over it at all.
There has been a GNOME bug open on it approximately forever, btw:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688434
And this, which I just commented on:
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