Bug 106459

Summary: When sending email the kwallet dialog appears behind other windows and does not have keyboard focus
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Daniel O'Connor <darius>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: cannewilson, craig.magina, dominik.stadler, eugening, kollix, peter.mueller_1955, Ronny.Standtke
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description Daniel O'Connor 2005-05-29 13:19:21 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
OS:                FreeBSD

When I send an email and kmail needs the wallet password for my SMTP server it pops the window behind the mail window so I have to alt-tab or move the mouse to it before I can actually types the password. This is a bit of a pain - I tried to force it on top of all others using "special window settings" but that doesn't seem to work.

It would be nice if the kwallet prompt would grab keyboard focus, or forced on top (or both) - perhaps as options?
Comment 1 George Staikos 2005-05-29 14:40:18 UTC 
This is either a KMail bug or a kwin bug.  My first guess is KMail.
Comment 2 Dominik Stadler 2005-06-01 08:51:45 UTC 
The same happens here, too. Quite annoying. I always wait for the send-dialog to finish because I don't see that there is a dialog opened behind the mail-window. Only ALT-TAB shows the dialog.
Comment 3 Martin Steigerwald 2005-09-21 09:50:18 UTC 
I can confirm that it does not have a keyboard focus.

I also had it that it pops up behind the mail send window, but with KMail 1.8.2 from KDE 3.4.2 (Debian Sid package 3.4.2-1) I did not get this problem anymore. Maybe that behaviour is related to bug 105909.
Comment 4 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-01-10 18:49:54 UTC 
*** Bug 115283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-11 22:21:56 UTC 
*** Bug 131756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 rom1v 2007-08-03 17:26:43 UTC 
There are 2 problems in one : the focus and the synchronous call to kwallet.
Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2007-08-30 18:44:48 UTC 
*** Bug 149314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Anne Wilson 2009-01-09 22:55:21 UTC 
Unfortunately this is still present in Mandriva 2009, KDE 4.1.3.
Comment 9 Craig Magina 2009-03-18 15:51:21 UTC 
This is still present in Fedora 10, KDE4.2.0, KMail 1.11.0, KWallet 1.4.  What makes it more annoying is the fact that it comes up every time I send an e-mail.
Comment 10 Craig Magina 2009-03-18 18:45:18 UTC 
(In reply to comment #9)
> This is still present in Fedora 10, KDE4.2.0, KMail 1.11.0, KWallet 1.4.  What
> makes it more annoying is the fact that it comes up every time I send an
> e-mail.

On the same system, but now running KDE 4.2.1, KMail 1.11.1, KWallet 1.4, the kwallet dialogue now comes to the front.  It also no longer asks continuously, just if kwallet is closed, as would be expected.

This is fixed for me using the above versions.
Comment 11 Martin Koller 2009-09-29 19:39:34 UTC 
If it works, let's close it.