https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393356
--- Comment #5 from Andrius Štikonas <andr...@stikonas.eu> --- (In reply to Harald Sitter from comment #4) > Thiago informed me that this isn't really portable. Winids shouldn't be sent > to other applications on wayland which likely is why this isn't working. > With that in mind I doubt this can get fixed. Plus this API isn't actually > working with any agent other than the plasma one anyway, we literally feed > it the winid over dbus manually and also in a way that is equally > !re-entrant as bug #379215 > > There may be an opportunity to rethink how the auth dialog works in general > though, it really shouldn't be a regular dialog window and it even more > shouldn't be transient to a random window. Because of how the dialog works > currently there's a whole bunch of focus stealing problems and by extension > probably some security concerns as well. Other systems (notably windows and > gnome come to mind) the auth requests are blocking (covering the entire > screen) and always take precedence over anything else going on window-wise. > They are much closer in behavior to the lock screen than a random dialog. Yes, I was also told afterwards that this method is not portable. I do like an idea of full screen authentication dialogs. It does make more sense on Wayland... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
