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pay-service package

  1. Bug #1355173
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 1355173

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 1355173] Re: Switching windows with a Trusted Prompt Session active loses the trusted prompt session

On Fri, 2014-08-15 at 14:43 +0000, Nick Dedekind wrote:

> This was a condition enforced in the first iteration of prompt sessions.
> It will be removed later, once the services support parallel processing
> of prompt requests.

We do this today. Which is, ironically, the only way it works as the
user can click the pay button again and we do a second prompt :-)

> The payments helper should be putting password prompts/etc as part of
> it's prompt providers, as far as I'm aware, there shouldn't need to be
> any app context switching when dealing with prompt sessions.

There would be if you had something like a password manager and you
needed to go look up the password and come back to the dialog. Or
perhaps for 2fa you'd go to authenticator.