Fedora 19, Evolution 3.8.5, Gnome 3.8.

I have some troubles with password prompt dialog. I have many mail accounts, and use password manager, namely, KeePassX. In older versions of Evolution, I could specify passwords for email accounts in Edit/Preferences/Mail Accounts, but in Evolution 3.8 there is no such possibility. Mail Accounts Preferences were reworked, and there is no way to specify passwords in advance. I had set up all the accounts, and pressed Send/Receive button for the first time. Evolution shown password prompt dialog for the first mail account. The problem was that this a system-wide modal dialog -- there was no way to switch to my password manager -- Alt+Tab did not work, Window key did not work also, even mouse did not help to switch to another application or window. This, I had to press Cancel, and Evolution immediately shown password prompt dialog for another account, and so on.

There is a workaround. You can copy a password into clipboard in advance, before pressing Send/Receive. Of course, it is not convenient, but it does work... for one mail account. When you paste your password into dialog and press "Ok", you will see a prompt for another password... Oops.

I am not sure if password prompt dialog should be system-wide modal or not. For example, Bug 694243 requests password prompt dialog should be modal:

> It would be great if evolution could use the gnome-shell password prompter
> dialog when requesting my gpg password. This way there's no chance that
> another application can steal focus and my password.

However, this is a usability issue which should be solved somehow. Probably, Gnome password prompter and password managers can be more tightly integrated.

Meanwhile, Evolution can do a part of the job. Evolution keeps all the passwords in Gnome keyring. A user could use Gnome keyring directly to set/change email passwords. But now it is hardly possible. In my keyring I see all the email passwords, but al the passwords look like:

> Evolution Data Source 1378838468.3746.12@localhost.localdomain
> Evolution Data Source 1378839943.4816.4@localhost.localdomain
> ...

Oops. Possible workaround/solution could be implemented in two steps:

1. Evolution should use meaningful names for passwords in Gnome keyring.
2. Evolution should create entry in keyring as soon as user set up an account (not wait for the first Send/Receive).

In such a case user can set up all the accounts in Evolution, then open keyring and set all the passwords.