Howto make asking for a password even more annoying

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 18:05:07 UTC 2010


Anne Wilson wrote:

> 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
I never intentionally set it (never even heard of it), but it is 'low'



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