Re: Password dialogs

[David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 15:57 -0500, Bryan Clark wrote:
> Hi All ~
> 
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 01:51 -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > I added password support to evince this evening.  I'm not super thrilled
> > with how the code turned out, but it seems to work.  ev-window.c could
> > use a round of refactoring to clean it up.  As per most of the features,
> > only pdf is supported as I think this feature it unique to it.
> 
> Awesome!
> 
> > There's one weird case that I'm not handling now.  If you open a
> > document with a password, and then cancel the dialog, we just sit there
> > with a 'blank' window, and with no way to get the password dialog back.
> > Bryan Clark proposed placing a message in the blank page, letting them
> > know that the document is encrypted, and including a button to bring the
> > password dialog back up.
> 
> In an effort to make Jonathan's life more difficult I came up with
> something like this for the cancel situation.
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~clarkbw/designs/document-viewer/locked%20evince.png

Awesome!

Heading OT-here, but this looks like a great UI for Nautilus (esp.
spatial nautilus) when you have folders that require authentication.

Currently IIRC it pops up a password dialog, and if you get it wrong you
get told, and then are left with an empty nautilus window, which has
always felt a bit wrong to me.

So would this be appropriate for nautilus and should I bugzilla it?


> > I'm happy to try this sometime, but it's going to make the ev-window
> > code even more messy, as we can now have a document half-loaded.  I
> > don't know if anyone has a better suggestion or not.  Thoughts?
> 
> The reasoning behind this is this:  
> 
> Assume the person doesn't know the location of the pdf file Evince has
> opened.  If Evince is opened from a web page link it will be launched
> along side the web browser and the user isn't guaranteed to know where
> the file is located.  
> 
> The person being prompted for a password may not be sure why they are
> being asked for a password they may hit cancel.  We're trying to give
> them some reasoning for what happened and allow them to open the
> document again without searching for the file.
> 
> Likewise there is a smaller case where the person doesn't want to open
> the document anymore after they are prompted for a password.  They hit
> cancel, then close the Evince window.  One extra step for a very small
> case to save a lot of pain for the much larger use case.
> 
> > Also, there's now a TODO file in the code.  Please feel free to fill it
> > in.
> 
> Yes!  I have something I need to add already which will cover getting
> rid of the first TODO in there.
> 
> Cheers,
> ~ Bryan
> 
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