@YvanDaSilva@hachyderm.io
@barubary@infosec.exchange @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family this can't be real, is this for real ?
That's a serious bug if that's the case. Is this really necessary for any security reasons to be a modal that you can't move around ?
Even on macos the password or bio metrics are not taking the focus exclusively.
@barubary@infosec.exchange
@YvanDaSilva@hachyderm.io @cassidy@mastodon.blaede.family If the dialog weren't modal, it would be a lone dialog floating around without an owning window and that would violate the gnome β¨
aestheticsβ¨
. Nothing to do with security.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688434: opened in 2012, left unfixed for nine years, then the whole bugtracker was retired
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/1410: opened in 2019, still unfixed, steadily accumulating duplicate reports, nobody is working on it