[Pidgin] #9205: Pidgin steals focus while typing passwords

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#9205: Pidgin steals focus while typing passwords
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 Reporter:  yohell                         |        Owner:              
     Type:  defect                         |       Status:  pending     
Milestone:                                 |    Component:  pidgin (gtk)
  Version:  2.5.2                          |   Resolution:              
 Keywords:  focus steal password security  |  
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Changes (by yohell):

  * status:  pending => new


Comment:

 > pidgin does not steal focus, ever.

 OK, it's good to know that you don't do it intentionally. If you have any
 theories as to why it happened on my system anyway, I'd be interested to
 hear them.

 [[BR]]
 > pidgin does not (and indeed cannot) know what sort of text you happen to
 be typing

 I didn't mean that pidgin should psychically detect what I'm doing. I just
 meant to stress that an IM program stealing focus could be a Very Bad
 Thing, because the user might be typing a password. Sorry if I was
 unclear.

 [[BR]]
 > too many people live with brain-dead window management environments

 I'm using vanilla Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (LTS) along with the
 default pidgin from the repos. Do you consider that to be brain-dead? I've
 got "preferences > appearance > effects" set to None and I haven't
 intentionally made any configuration changes to affect
 notifications/attention requesting. If there is a way to configure my
 system to keep pidgin off my screen until I click the icon in the
 notification area, then I'm all ears.

 [[BR]]
 > It is unreasonable to suggest that we should make all new windows
 > pidgin ever creates have the same options

 I don't know if that's what I suggested since I don't know the
 implementation. However I would like to suggest to (have an option to?)
 never have pidgin open a window unless as a direct result of a user
 action, such as clicking a widget. Is that also unreasonable?

 [[BR]]
 > If there is a specific dialog that you feel shouldn't have a
 > default that does, please let us know we will be more than happy
 > to consider removing that default.

 What do you mean by "default", and how does it relate to opening windows?

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