Re: [Bug-gnu-pw-mgr] Another use case for web login

[Bruce Korb]

Hi Yutaka,

On 01/08/14 10:48, Bruce Korb wrote:
> > I'm talking about the line 357-358:
> >
> >     if (! isatty(STDIN_FILENO) || ! isatty(STDOUT_FILENO))
> >         usage_message( no_pwid_fmt);
> >
> > What do you think?

I have posted an early release with those lines removed:

  http://autogen.sourceforge.net/data/gnu-pw-mgr-1.1.3-e0d9.tar.xz

I have been thinking more about your GUI wrapper, and have a few
things that need thinking about:

1. I have dozens of different web sites that I have to login to,
   and many of them require different login id's.  I cannot
   remember them all.  Consequently, I rely on this thing to
   remind me of which id it is.

2. It is expected that often (most of the time?), a user will have
   *two* seeds, thus *two* passwords for a password id.  The reason
   being that a new seed is the preferred way of obtaining a new
   password.  You need to change them every year or two.
   Which of these would your wrapper pick?

3. Just because you kick off a GUI wrapper in a certain context
   does not (to me) mean that a "paste into that context" will
   go there.  There's a lot of mysterious stuff with pop up/
   pop under windows that can rearrange the order.  I think,
   for me, the positive feedback of me telling the computer where
   to paste gives me control over whether or not a stray window
   will catch the pasting action.  I may be wrong, but I've
   had too many windows jump into the middle of things and
   capture stuff I had intended for a different window.
   I use extreme focus stealing prevention and focus strictly
   under mouse.  There are still issues.

4. do not forget you'd need the ability to specify options

5. sometimes, I want the user to see a message.

For these reasons, I think it is useful for all the output
to be displayed in the GUI window, allowing the user to
look at and select the text they want.

What do _you_ think? :)

Thanks - Bruce