Bug#501812: gnome-keyring: Disable graphical dialog when interacting with a shell

[Herman Robak]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:52:56 +0100, Herman Robak <herman at skolelinux.no> wrote:

> On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:49:25 +0100, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
>
>> Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 16:00 +0100, Herman Robak a écrit :
>>> Modal dialogs that take focus away from _another_ application
>>> are disruptive, and they can lead sensitive data to the wrong
>>> place by accident.  We need less of them, not more.
>>
>> Modal dialogs that take the focus to go directly into the workflow
>> you’re currently in (like, asking your SSH passphrase when you are
>> connecting by SSH to a host) are not only harmless, they are *desired*.
>
>  I agree that if a dialog pops up for this purpose, it needs to grab
> focus.  I did not mention focus.  My beef is with the dialog.

Oh, but I did mention the focus. *sigh*
"Modal dialogs that take focus away from _another_ application 
are disruptive"

I have to admit that I do have a beef with those.  But as I wrote, 
focus is not the concern here.  The redundant alien window is.

<weasel>If you take "focus" to mean the _user's_ focus, 
not the keyboard input focus, it will make more sense.</weasel>

I apologise for my inconsistence here.

-- 
Herman Robak