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Subject:    Re: Re: Re: Re: KCM Authorization (was: Re: Review Request: print-manager on kdereview)
From:       Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=E4=DFlin?= <mgraesslin () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-08-30 15:42:56
Message-ID: 3406259.kln5y8KD8Y () martin-desktop
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On Thursday 30 August 2012 17:23:58 Dario Freddi wrote:
> 2012/8/30 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org>:
> > On Thursday 30 August 2012 10:40:18 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> >> Am 30.08.2012, 07:52 Uhr, schrieb Martin Gräßlin <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
> > above 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.
does it need to be a dialog? What about the recent suggestion by me to move 
the KWallet dialog into the workspace - the same could be done for policy kit. 
It would be a kind of system modal, just without being insane ;-)

But I guess I have to read up the thread on kcd which I so far skipped.

Cheers
Martin
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