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(Get the code!)
I think it's important for the developer to consider some aspects of this bug separately.
1. Wifi auth window pops up and steals focus before user is logged in.
It is frustrating to begin typing my password and to have my keyboard focus
swiped away so my hidden password is now hopelessly split across two different
windows.
2. Wifi auth window _keeps_ focus from the Ubuntu login window until it is dismissed.
I think the first one is an annoying bug, but it might be easy to dismiss as "medium". But the second one is sometimes serious or critical.
Consider that the login prompt appears on the display where the mouse appears. On a multi-monitor setup, this is critical because some monitors may not be usable yet. If I can't see my login screen, I have learned that I can just move my mouse so it is on the primary display and the login prompt will appear. But the WiFi password window does not have this logic. When it steals focus from the login prompt, I can move the mouse all I want, and the login prompt will appear or disappear from my primary display. But until I cancel the wifi popup window, I cannot type my password to login. If the wifi popup appeared on some unusable monitor, I cannot see the window to dismiss it.
In my case my 2nd monitor is in portrait orientation so my display properties have it rotated. But this rotation does not take effect until after I log in. So when I get the popup window, my mouse on the 2nd display is rotated 90 degrees and the popup is quite difficult to dismiss.
I can imagine this is a serious accessibility issue for users who have other challenges seeing their display or using a mouse or keyboard as efficiently as you do.
Please fix this. It has been with us for so long.