Howto make asking for a password even more annoying

[Laurent Rineau]

Le lundi 08 février 2010 17:28:17, Anne Wilson a écrit :
> On Monday 08 February 2010 14:16:21 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> > On 02/08/2010 10:12 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Sunday 07 February 2010 19:44:26 Neal Becker wrote:
> > >> e.g.: I use kmail to send a mail.  It asks for a password for kwallet.
> > >> That behavior is not new.  What's new (within last couple of months)
> > >> is now it randomly uses knotifier to ask if I want to switch to
> > >> kmail, and THEN it shows the dialog asking for the password.
> > > 
> > > Switch TO KMail FROM what?  I've not heard of anyone else reporting
> > > strange behaviour like this?
> > 
> > I believe this only happens when the password dialog box is
> > hidden/behind other windows/minimized. When the password dialog box
> > actually is the focused window then knotifier does not ask the question.
> 
> Interesting.  I've never seen that behaviour - and I have been aware of the
> annoyance of the dialog box sometimes being hidden.  I wonder if there is a
> configuration issue here, since I don't see it?

It may be related to the the level of focus-protection in KWin settings. In 
some cases, to prevent focus stealing, popups pop in background by default 
(they still pop over there main window, if they are modal, but they do not 
steal focus from another window).

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