Comment # 2 on bug 1187290 from teo teo

> Please work with a knowledgeable community support person to work on this.
> Bugzilla is not a suitable venue for support problems.

I'm not asking for support, I'm reporting a bug. Or a series of bugs.

Now, it turns out to be something pretty different than I thought, and I'm
sorry about that, but it's still a bug report.


It turns out that there was a popup, or rather a pop-under, hidden behind other
windows, asking me to unlock the kde wallet, and the network manager was
waiting for that. And of course I didn't notice its icon in the task manager
which wasn't highlighted in any way.

There are A SERIES of things that are wrong:

1. The most obvious one, the popup should, well, pop up. That it, get in front
of everything so that I (omitted swear word) see it. If there were legitimate
reasons for not doing that for focus-stealing reasons (NOT the case, at the
very least not in the case when I manually attempted to connect and hence my
own manual actions ultimately triggered the popup), then the icon in the task
manager should shake or something to call my attention.

2. The popup itself gives no indication whatsoever of what application is
actually requesting the wallet and for what. Well, it says "The application
'kde5'" but that's WAY too generic. It should say "Network Manager" or
something that makes it crystal clear that it's for the wifi network. In the
past I had sometimes seen that popup and thought it was requested by Chrome
(for reasons that are not worth detailing here). Not that I ignored the popup
because of that, I just didn't see it because of (1), but either way it's
unforgivable that you prompt me to unlock the wallet without telling me exactly
what for. When triggered by manually connecting, it's pretty easy to guess
(provided that you do see the popup), but when it's triggered by automatic
connection on startup, or automatic reconnection, it's not.

3. Is it really necessary to prompt me every time? (let me quickly answer that:
no). To some people the wifi password can be very worth protecting via the
wallet, for me it's not. I would very happily have it stored unencrypted,
unsecurely, plain-text or whatever, in exchange for the convenience of not
having to type my other password one additional time per boot. But actually
there must be a way to avoid prompting without giving up security. If it's
fine, security-wise, to not prompt me until the next boot (it does NOT prompt
me every time it reconnects), which can be weeks from now, it's equally fine to
not prompt me ever again across boots.