On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 13:29 -0700, Jerry James wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 12:52 PM Andrew Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: > > And I have a user story: Andy wants to use a password manager to store > > his password for an account in the Online Accounts list. When it’s > > time to log in, Andy clicks the account and a system modal dialog > > appears asking for a password. Andy would like to click the account in > > the password manager and copy the password, but he can’t, because the > > dialog is system modal. So instead, Andy grumbles, dismisses the > > dialog, copies the password, and then tries to get the dialog to > > reappear before the copied password is auto-cleared from the > > clipboard. Andy also wonders why the system modal dialog is not > > visually consistent with the Online Accounts application at all. > > It isn't just you. I HATE that modal dialog. I actively dislike > modal dialogs in general, but that particular one has tripped me up so > many times....
So do I, but it has nothing at all to do with this. That's a GNOME UI choice. The authentication system GNOME is talking to has no control over it at all. There has been a GNOME bug open on it approximately forever, btw: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688434 -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
