[RFE] Forward password requests through password agent requests

[mathstuf]

See these docs. Basically, instead of directly talking to X11/Wayland to pop a dialog, forward requests through the mechanism specified above. The prompt could then be answered that way. I have been using systemd-gnome-ask-password-agent for UI purposes, but recent LWN discussion has triggered the idea to have a shell-based agent as well that could work for the ssh-in use case.

This would resolve one desire I have where udiskie should wait for me to acknowledge a password request before forcing it upon me (stealing focus, both of the window manager and psychologically).

[coldfix]

Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds good, I'm happy to accept PRs for this. It could be a new builtin option for --password-prompt

[mathstuf]

Thanks, I'll take a look at working on it when I get the chance.

The main benefit for me is that the password request is triggered by me noticing the notification rather than a dialog popping up, stealing focus. Was better in XMonad when I had a rule that new windows don't get focus, but haven't migrated that for river yet.