On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-22 at 11:18 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> > I'm concerned about the "automatically opening dialog" thing because
> > I'm not sure we can tell when something automatically requests network
> > or requests network on account of the user.
> >
> >
> > For instance, is an AJAX request to a website a user request or not?
> > We don't know. It could be clicking a button in Facebook, or it could
> > just be the site polling to see if anything new has come in.
> >
> >
> > There's no possible way the browser even knows, so I don't think it's
> > a good idea to do this.
>
> That's an edge case, and I'm not sure edge cases in the implementation
> should be driving the design. I'm sure we'll find a way.
>

What's the edge case? That the user has Facebook open in a browser? How is
that in any way an edge case?


> > The other thing that I've been concerned about is that users have
> > complained about not being able to use their password managers in our
> > password modal dialogs. I'd like to see something that acknowledges
> > this complaint.
>
> It's already a problem right now (that Wi-Fi passwords are
> desktop-modal). Why are you (as you've already done on IRC) tying this
> issue together with the combined system status menu?
>
> > Otherwise, the UX of the giant dialog looks good to me, and I'm
> > already starting to implement it. (But where's the avatar?)
>
> Excellent. Is there a bug to track it?
>

Not yet. It's in a local branch on my system, as it's nowhere near
publishable quality yet.

-- 
  Jasper
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