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pasphrase entry for signing a message should be modal

Bug #16129 reported by David Mandelberg
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evolution (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

When I tried to send a message, it asked me for the passphrase for my gpg/pgp
key, but the dialog didn't have focus because I had moved the mouse off of it by
accident, so when I typed my passphrase, it went into the message instead of
doing nothing.

I caught myself quickly and removed it from the message before sending, but I
think this should be prevented in the future by making the passphrase entry
dialog modal to its parent message compose window.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308795: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308795

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

thanks for your bug. I've forwarded it upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308795

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

they have closed it as NOTABUG:

"it shouldn't be modal, window/manager/mouse is just a fact of life and it wont
fix it much anyway; we can only be per-app modal, not global modal.

e.g. if the mouse fell onto an irc window the problem woudl be worse and we
can't fix that"

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