Public bug reported: 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. ** Affects: gksu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- remove pointer grab in authentication dialog https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256692 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
