Le lundi 22 septembre 2008 à 11:54 +0200, Steve Frécinaux a écrit : > 2008/9/18 Josselin Mouette <joss debian org>: > > 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 mail" in evolution, and it immediately > > prompts the GPG passphrase. > > > > Bad behavior: still in evolution, when an IMAP server stops responding, > > a pop up comes out of nowhere and asks for your password, whatever you > > were doing at that moment. > > > > Moderately bad behavior: you connect to a slow remote server in > > nautilus, and 10 seconds later it asks for a password. > > > > Of course, it looks very hard to find correct ways to implement password > > prompts without having them popping up at unexpected times, but that's > > at least what we should try to achieve. > > 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 something like that. That’s certainly a good start, but it is not enough. For example if you are writing an email in evolution and it suddenly asks for a password while reconnecting, it is quite annoying. I really think the good criterion is not “has focus” but some “action triggered by the user less than 1 second ago”. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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