Howto make asking for a password even more annoying

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 08 February 2010 16:32:45 Laurent Rineau wrote:
> 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).

That sounds reasonable.  I have focus-stealing prevention set to Medium, with 
policy set to Click to Focus.  Neal, what are your settings?

Anne
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