2008/9/18 Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One way to avoid annoying the user is to establish a line like "a > password prompt should only pop up immediately after a user action". > This way it appears only while you are expecting to type a password. > > Good behavior: you click on "send mail" in evolution, and it immediately > prompts the GPG passphrase. > > Bad behavior: still in evolution, when an IMAP server stops responding, > a pop up comes out of nowhere and asks for your password, whatever you > were doing at that moment. > > Moderately bad behavior: you connect to a slow remote server in > nautilus, and 10 seconds later it asks for a password. > > Of course, it looks very hard to find correct ways to implement password > prompts without having them popping up at unexpected times, but that's > at least what we should try to achieve.
We could have such a behaviour: - if the application requesting the password is focused, then show the modal dialog directly. - if not, then have an icon in the notification area or something like that. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
