GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 469365
gnome-keyring-ask should always be on-top
Last modified: 2007-08-23 23:45:57 UTC
Please describe the problem: the bug was opened on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/126288 Steps to reproduce: 1. Configure a wireless network using the Feisty network manager applet 2. Start a few applications 3. Save the session 4. log out. 5. log in 6. /usr/lib/gnome-keyring/gnome-keyring-ask will pop-up asking you for your network password 7. Before you can put your password in, your other apps will then fire up (firefox, thunderbird, gaim, etc) 8. You'll now observe that gnome-keyring-ask is at the back of the stack. Actual results: gnome-keyring-ask goes into background and is not immediately accessible by the user Expected results: gnome-keyring-ask should stay in foreground until the information is submitted o the user send it to background Does this happen every time? yes Other information: "This is a serious newbie usability issue IMHO since a newbie could be scratching their head thinking, "why can't I surf the web?" Easy fix: make gnome-keyring-ask stay on-top so that other apps open _behind_ it. This way it is immediately obvious that you need to enter your network password to get online. Extra credit: The text that gnome-keyring-ask pops up is frankly inane - a newbie really doesn't care that "the application '/usr/bin/nm-applet' wants to access blah, blah, blah". What they want to read is someting more succinct and obvious, like: To connect to the internet, please enter your network password."
What is the exact version of gnome-keyring you're using? Any later than 2.19.90 should already have this feature.
Here are the versions in Feisty: # dpkg -l|grep -i gnome-keyring|awk '{printf "%-30s %-30s\n", $2,$3}' gnome-keyring 0.8.1-0ubuntu1 gnome-keyring-manager 2.18.0-0ubuntu1 libgnome-keyring0 0.8.1-0ubuntu1
So yes, this has been fixed in the latest version, and will most likely be included in the next version of your distro. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349729 ***
thanks for the quick and positive response, can't wait to get the new gnome-keyring in ubuntu gutsy. great work by the way :-).
Thanks. I feel bad that some of the problems have taken this long to fix. If Gutsy includes the full PAM integration (and they integrate it properly with gdm and gnome-screensaver), that would obviate all this passphrase prompting once and for all. See: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring/Pam