Re: gnome-wide authentication dialog

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Heya Christophe,

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 20:29, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> Small followup since it seems I suck at explaining something in English
> ;)
> This so called 'authentication dialog' currently pop up in Nautilus to
> ask for login/password when trying to access to a samba share or a
> webdav location. Any gnome-vfs module can invoke some callback to ask
> for a login/password if it needs one, this patch makes in sort that any
> app linking against libgnomeui is able to pop up a nice dialog when such
> a callback is called.
> (I can't send a link to a screenshot, my web host is down atm)

I have been using the authentication dialog in totem for quite a while,
and apart from some deadlocks because of gtk_dialog_run (it doesn't play
very well with threads), it works nicely.

I hope we can somehow get this into libgnomeui.

> Le dim 18/05/2003 à 19:07, Christophe Fergeau a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I filed http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103408 some time ago.
> > With the patch in that bug, all apps using libgnomeui and gnome-vfs will
> > pop up a dialog asking for login/password when it's necessary.
> > There are still a few small issues with this patch: it uses
> > gtk_dialog_run, this should be removed, and I don't know if it's better
> > to enable the authentication dialog by default with a call to disable
> > them, or if the app writer should explicitly ask to get authentication
> > dialogs if he wants some.
> > 
> > Before working on these small issues, I'd like to know if this patch is
> > likely to be accepted in libgnomeui for 2.4 or not.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your input,
> > 
> > Christophe

Cheers

-- 
/Bastien Nocera
http://hadess.net

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