On Friday, January 17, 2020 12:51:35 PM MST Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Jan 16, 2020, at 3:48 AM, Sarah Finn <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I hope you are all well.
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> > I would like to invite you to contribute to our new initiative: AAA
> > replacement login.
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> 
> 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

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