In terms of User Experience I've grown to love the mac style sheet dialog
[1] for password prompts. It's not often that I'll recommend a dialog, or a
modal dialog for user interactions. However sheets seem to have most of the
properties you want when a password is required from an application.
I
Note that the Windows solution to use Ctrl+Alt+Del as a Secure Attention
Key is just one way to implement Trusted Path. There is no reason that
the GNOME or UNIX community couldn't come up with a different and novel
way to meet the same requirements. The Secure Attention Key should be
viewed as
Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 16:02 +0200, Dave Neary a écrit :
> > I really think the good criterion is not “has focus” but some “action
> > triggered by the user less than 1 second ago”.
>
> That seems like it'll be overly complicating any code that gets written
> to handle this.
I didn’t mean
Hi,
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 11:54 +0200, Steve Frécinaux a écrit :
>> 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 som
Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 11:54 +0200, Steve Frécinaux a écrit :
> 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
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 mai
Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Someone who has gained a user privilege could possibly show a fake
>> password input dialog that looks exactly like a "real" password prompt,
>> thereby learning the root password.
>
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 18:46 +, Stef a écrit :
>> Some people want it to act like gksudo. That is, make a password prompt
>> desktop modal, no other windows are accessible, everything grayed out.
>>
>> Use case/complaint: "I was giving a presentation in front of
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:09 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>> I believe the goal is to use some uncatchable keyboard sequence a'la
>> Windows' secure auth (Ctrl+Alt+Del).
> This is kind of silly; I have to type a
> This is kind of silly; I have to type a complex keyboard combination in
> order to input a password? That is annoying. Additionally, switching
It makes a lot of sense in some environments and not a lot of sense in
many others.
> VTs in Linux is usually slow; more annoyance. Expect some resis
On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:09 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Someone who has gained a user privilege could possibly show a fake
> > password input dialog that looks exactly like a "real" password prompt,
> >
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Someone who has gained a user privilege could possibly show a fake
> password input dialog that looks exactly like a "real" password prompt,
> thereby learning the root password.
>
> Same thing with VT swiching
wOn Thu, 2008-09-18 at 22:55 -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Stef:
>
> > Is there a standard way or goal for the UI and behavior of password
> > prompts on the desktop? Besides having as few as possible, that is.
>
> There is Trusted Path to consider. To meet Trusted Path requirements,
> any entry
Stef:
Is there a standard way or goal for the UI and behavior of password
prompts on the desktop? Besides having as few as possible, that is.
There is Trusted Path to consider. To meet Trusted Path requirements,
any entry of the root password needs to be done via a trusted user.
This means t
Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008 à 18:46 +, Stef a écrit :
> Some people want it to act like gksudo. That is, make a password prompt
> desktop modal, no other windows are accessible, everything grayed out.
>
> Use case/complaint: "I was giving a presentation in front of thousands
> of people. I did
Is there a standard way or goal for the UI and behavior of password
prompts on the desktop? Besides having as few as possible, that is.
There are several outstanding bugs against the behavior of gnome-keyring
and seahorse about password prompting. It's not difficult to code a
solution, but decidin
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