On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 1:48 AM Adam Williamson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 13:29 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Andrew Lutomirski <[email protected]> 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:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1410

I would argue that having gnome-online-accounts blame gnome-shell for this
is actually a bit inappropriate.  The behavior of whatever GTK or GNOME API
is being used by gnome-online-accounts is simply so poor that
gnome-online-accounts should stop using it.
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