On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 13:29 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Andrew Lutomirski
<luto(a)mit.edu> 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
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