Comment 10 for bug 162585
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| Adam J Richardson (fatman-crackmonkey) wrote | #10 |
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I can see that point of view. That makes it a misuse of pinentry-gtk2 instead of a bug.
Suppose you have a situation where you might legitimately want to ignore the password dialog for a while. Maybe you use a KeePass database to store passwords, or you have an OS bug where you have to use a workaround to see dialogs. At best it means you have to cancel out, at worst it renders the system unusable.
I don't think these situations are unrealistic. I encountered them both myself. IMO pinentry-gtk2 should never be used in a desktop environment, because the user might actually want to ignore the dialog for a while without cancelling it.