** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #531609 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531609
** Also affects: gksu via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531609 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gksu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256692 Title: remove pointer grab in authentication dialog Status in The "GKSu" Gnome Frontend for "su": Unknown Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Binary package hint: gksu There are users that cannot use a regular keyboard and have to rely on an onscreen keyboard to do their typing. (for example TabletPC users, disabled users that can only use a pointer,...) These users are not able to input their password into the gksu authentication dialog, because the gksu dialog grabs the pointer. To resolve the same issue in policykit-gnome, they decided to simply not perform any pointer grabs on its authentication dialog; see comment 12 and 13 of the following bugthread: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531609 (remove the pointer grabs and provide a gconf key for the keyboard grabs where there seems to be more security issues) There is a gconf key to disable grabbing for the gksu dialog. But by using an approach like that used in policykit-gnome, the gksu dialog would be accessible by the users indicated above out of the box; they would not need anymore the knowledge of the gconf key to disable grabbing from the gksy dialog. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gksu/+bug/256692/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
