seahorse modal dialog prevents using other password management applications

[Will Rouesnel]

When doing an action such as running debuild for package signing, seahorse will pop-up a dialog to ask to unlock a GPG key if it has a password (but is not yet recorded in seahorse for whatever reason).

seahorse uses a modal dialog for this request, which prevents the user from using another password management application such as Keepass to copy+paste the password into the dialog.

It is not clear that a simple modal dialog is actually providing any enhanced security in this case (the dialog went unmodal on one invocation for unclear reasons), and there is no way to disable this functionality in seahorse itself.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Will Rouesnel (w-rouesnel)]

Upstream bug report made at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688295

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks