After I upgraded to Fedora 17 beta, the new NM password prompt is a clutter/gnome-shell/whatever fancy-looking dialog. It has multiple problems: 1. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V don't do anything. 2. The "show typing" option is not really discoverable. I found it by accident. 3. Copying a long password with a mouse appears to be impossible. Try as I might, as soon as I select more than a character or two, the copy/paste/toggle-show-typing menu pops up and prevents me from selecting more. Trying to interact with the dialog while the menu is visible seems to be very broken. Finally: 4. It's *system modal*. This makes it rather difficult to, say, run another program to look up the password in. (Microsoft learned this lesson years ago and has disabled this functionality in recent versions of Windows even for programs that explicitly request it.) P.S. What happened to the list of known wireless networks? This has gradually regressed from quite easy in F14 or so to inconsistent and hard to find in F16 to I-can't-find-it-at-all in F17.
See bugs 832843 and 868770 for additional usability-related issues: - The password dialog sometimes appears twice, once rounded-black-themed and later on rectangular-gray-themed. (Usually when I'm away and don't respond to the first dialog for some time, then I just cancel it, the second one appears.) - The password dialog pops up even when when NM does not really need to ask for a password (e.g. signal loss triggers password request).
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This is only slightly better in Fedora 18. For example, type some characters. Try to select them and copy -- no luck, copy is grayed out and you can't select. It turns out you have to "show text" first. Perhaps the grayed-out text for Copy should say "Copy (you must Show Text first)". In any case, all of the other issues with the system modal dialog in F17 are unchanged in F18.
(In reply to Andy Lutomirski from comment #0) > After I upgraded to Fedora 17 beta, the new NM password prompt is a > clutter/gnome-shell/whatever fancy-looking dialog. It has multiple problems: > The black window is from network-indicator implemented in gnome-shell itself. > > P.S. What happened to the list of known wireless networks? This has > gradually regressed from quite easy in F14 or so to inconsistent and hard to > find in F16 to I-can't-find-it-at-all in F17. NM still provides list of known networks. You can see them in nm-applet GUI or on command-line using 'nmcli dev wifi list'. If you use Gnome3/gnome-shell, then I guess the networks can be found in control-panel. Changing component to gnome-shell.
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This has improved a bit but is certainly not fully resolved.
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