Re: Empathy code, freeze and UI exception: Auth requiered event is not visible on the Shell (#646061)

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Guillaume Desmottes <gdesmott gnome org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Now that bug #645932 has been fixed and most of Empathy notifications
> are now displayed on the Shell (hourah!), we could make things ever
> better and display a notification when Empathy needs user to provide his
> password to connect the account:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646061
>
> Atm it's not very visible if, for any reason, the Empathy contact list
> is not displayed when connecting.
>
> This add a notification and a new translatable string ("Provide") so I
> guess it's a bit late for 3.0 but maybe we could merge it for 3.0.1?
> If you prefer to wait for 3.2 that's fine with me as well.

This is 3.0.x material at this point, I think. While the 'blinking
icon' mentioned in the bug description makes me shiver, the screenshot
of the proposed solution is clearly not good enough either. The
strings "Password required" and "Provide" do not provide enough
context to understand whats going on.