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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 113057] kwallet popup window does not grab focus anymore
From:       David Delbecq <delbd () oma ! be>
Date:       2006-07-24 7:18:08
Message-ID: 20060724071808.408.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From delbd oma be  2006-07-24 09:18 -------
Quote George Staikos:
"Tired of hearing about this.  It does what I was told to do in order to grab the \
focus with the popup dialog.  The rest is up to the window manager to deal with.  If \
I did something wrong, please reassign to me with the details."

And as user, i am tired of seeing this bug not solved. After 10 months of confirmed \
existence of this security related bug, nothing seems to have been done to solve it. \
Despite number of people confirming the bug, it's state has never been switched to \
confirmed. Despite the kwin developper being assigned this bug, there has been no \
message from them in this report. Do the kwin developper *know* they have a major \
security issue on the hand? 

Kwallet is now an important part of kde, and a lot of kde application developpers do \
use it now as a security tool. However, as a matter of facts, kwalletmanager is now a \
dangerous tool instead of a security tool. 

And what was bound to happen, happened. This week-end i sent my kwallet password on \
IRC, using kopete. This app was requestiong my wallet password and at the same time \
did open IRC windows. Those in background got keyboard focus.

It is really time something is done about it. If kwin developper don't seems to take \
this problem into account, do some action, contact them, ask them why they don't take \
it into account, move the issue to critical, security related and shake them a bit, \
this is really a dangerous situation on a security software and it has not been \
solved in 10 month, this, am sorry to have to say this to a free software, something \
that is unacceptable. If it were not because so much apps depend on kwallet i would \
have already removed this package from my system.

But unfortunately, this bugged security software is at the core of kde now...


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