On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 13:29 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Andrew Lutomirski <luto@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

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.