| Summary: | After connecting to a wifi via Network manager widget, a system dialogue pops up to ask for an unspecified password | Redundant (twice password) and a tad confusing (not specified in the dialogue *which* password (wifi or admin?)) | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasma-nm | Reporter: | Ivar Erikson <kiwimisc> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Jan Grulich <jgrulich> |
| Status: | REPORTED --- | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | kolAflash |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.19.5 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435269 | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Attachments: | the second password dialogue | ||
Maybe related or even a duplicate: bug 447397 NetworkManager applet: password* field looses focus when moving away the mouse (*WLAN/WiFi/wireless) |
Created attachment 133683 [details] the second password dialogue SUMMARY After connecting to a wifi via Network manager widget, a system dialogue pops up to ask for an unspecified password | Redundant (twice password) and a tad confusing (not specified in the dialogue *which* password (wifi or admin?)) The additional dialogue window which pops up when connecting to a new wifi network could benefit from a tiny update in the text to make it more specific. As it is, the text says: "For accessing the wireless network NETWORKNAME you need to provide a password below:" Now, I might be a bit of a dunce, but I always assume it's the admin/root password being asked for, such as to provide permission for the network manager to establish and save the connection. Why does this confuse me? Probably because I just, 4 seconds ago, input the Wifi password in the network manager when connecting, thus I'm assuming that the wifi password is "already there" and that the system needs to authenticate my identity, so to speak. I may be overcomplicating this (as I often do), but it does strike me as odd that I need to provide the wifi password in two different boxes within seconds of each other. But that's whole other bug report/request ;) Imo, a little tweak to the text would make it instantly clear just which password we're supposed to provide: "For accessing the wireless network NETWORKNAME you need to provide the Wifi/network password below:" STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Connect to new wifi via the network widget 2. Input password 3. Wait for the connection to be established 4. A new box will pop up, asking for an unspecified password OBSERVED RESULT A new box will pop up, asking for an unspecified password EXPECTED RESULT I expect (well, not anymore, after several years using KDE) that the wifi connection will be made with the first provided password; not to have a secondary system dialogue pop up to ask for another password. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 20.10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 Kernel Version: 5.8.0-29-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-4870HQ CPU @ 2.50GHz Memory: 15,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R9 ™ M370X ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This isn't a bug report, per se, but rather a usability/polish report. One of those "if you get around to it, it would be nice" kind of things :) Also, feel free to shuffle this around to the appropriate category.