GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 150042
open file dialog can not enter password
Last modified: 2009-02-28 16:47:11 UTC
I add SMB network to "open file dialog", but when open a shared directory which need to enter password first, the "password enter dialog" cannot accept charcter from the keyboard.
Does this still happen? There were some important changes since the time this bug was filed, and I believe it should be fixed now.
The password dialog should be in its own window group, not the default window group --- that way the modal grab will not affect it.
I think this is still relevant. gnome-authentication-manager uses gnome-password-dialog in 2 ways: nonblocking: present_authentication_dialog_nonblocking(): It checks if there's a grab and sets itself modal. However, if forgets to join the parent's window group. blocking: using gnome_password_dialog_run_and_block(): g-a-m never sets a parent in this case. The dialogue is modal while it runs, and should get its own window group. (Should be added in g-p-d.c not g-a-m.c; and since g-p-d can be used by others, it should either add to parent's window group or to own if it has no parent.)
Is this still relevant now that the file chooser implementation is gone from libgnomeui? Does the new one also use gnome-authentication-manager?
I assume it's not. It's a severe issue that would have raised duplicates since. Christian, feel free to reopen!