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Idea
#236: Make the box when you enter your admin password pretty
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Written by drewtown the 28 Feb 08 at 23:38.
Category: Look and Feel.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
The box that pops up when the admin password is required doesn't integrate with compiz and is pretty hideous and intrusive by default. It's pretty pointless for it to take over the whole screen and it could use some styling.
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Estesark wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 01:27
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I would like an option to prevent the rest of the screen from being faded out when the password prompt is shown.
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gavintlgold wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:37
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Maybe there's a reason for them blacking out the screen, but I can't see it right now. Should the dialog be a normal window, or something special? It also does annoy me that compiz doesn't play well with it. It always slows down the fade and makes it bumpy for some reason. Since I have wobbly fading enabled, I even see part of the black 'screen' wobble in. I also think that it the black screen would 'burn' in if you enabled the burn animation for tooltips... it in general looks quite bad, though it has improved since Feisty.
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unit3 wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 02:59
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I'm confused, on my compiz install, the "black" background is nicely transparent and shows the desktop through it, looks very good.
Perhaps what you're really asking for is to just enable the compiz transparency options by default?
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drewtown wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:16
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Yea I guess the background does fade and looks pretty nice but the window in the middle that blocks out everything.
I find it annoying because I often multi-task and when I go to bring up synaptic for example then go to do something else while it is completely loaded I have to enter in the password because I can't do anything else until I do.
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Greyor wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:46
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The whole point of the password dialog is that you're doing something that could alter your computer, and thus is potentially harmful -- I think the fact that it is modal and takes up the whole screen is an actual benefit. If GNOME didn't draw so much attention to the box, I would think it would diminish its effectiveness greatly.
I think it's fine to suggest design changes within the actual dialog box, but I believe that blacking out the rest of the screen is important. So I would agree with this change on that count, but not that it shouldn't be blacked out.
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Nat_Tuck wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 03:51
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Having the password dialog completely take over the screen is an important security feature - it makes it more difficult for some random web popup (or malicious program) to spoof the dialog.
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cardinals_fan wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:11
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I HATE that box!!! Blacking out the screen is obnoxious, and it should at least be optional rather than mandatory. I much prefer a logical app such as ktsuss for this.
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Hawke wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:18
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The screen-darkening is a good thing -- it provides a visual hint to the fact that gksu has forcibly taken over the mouse and keyboard, and as such you cannot switch windows or type in a different window. It would be nice if there was less lag between the gksu application launch and the dialog appearing though
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Hawke wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:41
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It would be good for it to integrate with Compiz though.
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Warbo wrote on the 20 Mar 08 at 01:20
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If the box didn't grab the input then someone could quickly type their password and press enter only to find they have sent it to someone over Pidgin (for example).
The reason it takes over the whole screen is so a web page can't pretend to be the box via a text entry field in a screenshot and thus find out the password.
The darkened windows are the best way I can think of for doing this, but I'm sure that is still a bit vulnerable.
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