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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 03.08.2015 11:30, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Michael Zanetti wrote on 28/07/15 18:12:
>> ...
> 
>> The incoming call and the wifi password entry are handled through 
>> the notification system. Seems like the Bluetooth case would be 
>> just the same, no?
> 
>> ...
> 
> That incoming calls and wi-fi password entry are handled through the
> notification system is a mistake. It means that without changing the
> notification system itself, the incoming call dialog can't be
> full-screen, or display the stored photo of the contact calling you[1];
> that third-party VoIP apps, if they existed, couldn't do anything
> equivalent to the incoming call dialog; that the wi-fi auth dialog
> can't do anything to prevent you from submitting a password that can't
> possibly be correct[2]; that the dialog is incapable of showing
> connection progress, and instead just disappears only to reappear
> seconds later if there was an error[3]; that even then, it doesn't
> display an error message[4]; and that you can't connect to an
> enterprise network without opening System Settings[5], because the
> notification system can't show dialogs that contain multiple text
> fields and/or certificate pickers.

I'm not saying that "abusing" the notification system is a good thing,
but it is not correct that those things are not supported. Check out the
unlock SIM PIN dialog. That's a notification too. It is full-screen, it
has multiple text fields (retry count, SIM1/2 indication) and it even
supports additional signals to trigger warning dialogs on top of that
notification.

> 
> Repeating this mistake with Bluetooth would result in similar problems
> in validating PINs, displaying pairing progress, and presenting
> pairing errors.
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1368249
> [2] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1091391
> [3] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1318732
> [4] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1480817
> [5] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1475023
> 
>

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