remove pointer grab in authentication dialog
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GKSu |
Fix Released
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High
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
New
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gksu
There are users that cannot use a regular keyboard and have to rely on an onscreen keyboard to do their typing. (for example TabletPC users, disabled users that can only use a pointer,...)
These users are not able to input their password into the gksu authentication dialog, because the gksu dialog grabs the pointer.
To resolve the same issue in policykit-gnome, they decided to simply not perform any pointer grabs on its authentication dialog; see comment 12 and 13 of the following bugthread:
http://
(remove the pointer grabs and provide a gconf key for the keyboard grabs where there seems to be more security issues)
There is a gconf key to disable grabbing for the gksu dialog. But by using an approach like that used in policykit-gnome, the gksu dialog would be accessible by the users indicated above out of the box; they would not need anymore the knowledge of the gconf key to disable grabbing from the gksy dialog.
Changed in gksu (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Changed in gksu: | |
importance: | Unknown → High |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |