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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: Re: Re: KCM Authorization (was: Re: Review Request: print-manager on kdereview)
From:       Dario Freddi <drf54321 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-08-30 15:23:58
Message-ID: CAFFVnfPca8v9p9CepJNe7h-Ky-iZoe08L8+VcZW348S3qRYx7w () mail ! gmail ! com
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2012/8/30 Martin Gr=E4=DFlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>:
> On Thursday 30 August 2012 10:40:18 Thomas L=FCbking wrote:
>> Am 30.08.2012, 07:52 Uhr, schrieb Martin Gr=E4=DFlin <mgraesslin@kde.org=
>:
>> > There is no such thing as a "system-wide modal" dialog on X and I doubt
>> > that
>> > we would be able to implement this in a secure way unless it is handled
>> > directly by the session manager.
>> >
>> > So I'm really surprised that polkit assumes something that does not
>> > exist.
>>
>> XGrabPointer/XGrabKeyboard or a barrier window between the dialog and all
>> other windows.
> hacky solution which does not prevent from other windows being raised abo=
ve it
> and so on.
>
> It would need a solution like the Screen Locker which takes care of quite=
 a
> lot more than "just" grabbing keyboard and pointer.

Well, I guess we are certainly not discussing if their solution is
right or wrong :) it's pretty obvious things won't change by their
side, so we have to work on what we have. The main point of the
discussion is whether we could find a way to make the dialog somehow
modal to the client.
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