you want to be able to edit your bullets after it fails?

or are you just saying that the time spent authenticating needs to be more polished?

(In reply to comment #1)
> you want to be able to edit your bullets after it fails?
> 
> or are you just saying that the time spent authenticating needs to be more
> polished?

What I mean is for the time spent between pressing Enter and going to another state (both hide for a successful login and going back to the prompt in case of failure) the entry should keep the bullets, but be insensitive.

okay, makes sense

Created attachment 199172 [details] [review]
gdm: don't clear bullets while authenticating

Users don't expect the bullets they just typed into an entry
field to disappear as soon as they hit enter.

Instead, the want the dialog to become insensitive during the
authentication process, so that it's clear that what they typed
in is being processed.

Review of attachment 199172 [details] [review]:

::: js/gdm/loginDialog.js
@@ +1063,3 @@
                          this._promptFingerprintMessage.hide();
+                         this._promptEntry.reactive = true;
+                         if (this._promptEntry.has_style_pseudo_class('insensitive'))

This if() isn't necessary -- remove_style_pseudo_class already checks if the class name exists.

Good catch, thanks.

Attachment 199172 [details] pushed as ca5ab20 - gdm: don't clear bullets while authenticating