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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