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Channel passwords should NOT require a modal dialog
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Seamus Donohue
EVE University
Ivy League
#1 - 2013-04-08 02:06:44 UTC
The dialog box that asks you for a chat channel password currently prohibits you from operating any other part of the EVE Online client until the dialog box is dismissed. Please change this so that other parts of the client can be used while waiting for a chat channel password.

Speaking generally, if ANY part of the interface is prohibiting the user from working with another part of the interface without a clear and logical dependency, then that's bad. The window where a user picks an assemblyline for manufacturing also prohibits using any other part of EVE Online until it's dismissed; this is also bad, and it should be limited to only blocking the user from using windows that depend upon the Science & Industry job in question.

Thank you for reading.

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Xe'Cara'eos
A Big Enough Lever
#2 - 2013-04-08 09:07:12 UTC
supported, and presumeably this wouldn't be too hard to implement, maybe even only removing lines of coding

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Van Mathias
Dead Space Continuum
#3 - 2013-04-08 12:28:35 UTC  |  Edited by: Van Mathias
I think that logging on to a chat channel should work a bit more like a telnet login, the channel window should open and a password prompt should appear, and any text entered into the input box while this prompt is open should appear as asterisks. Once you password in, it should work as normal.

But yes, so much +1 for this idea.

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Jivlain Pollard
The Red Circle Inc.
Ministry of Inappropriate Footwork
#4 - 2013-04-08 23:00:16 UTC
Agreed - indeed, one time I got invited to a password-protected chat channel and this had the effect of blocking me from convoing the guy and to ask for the password (to say nothing of possible abuses like inviting people to password-protected channels while they're trying to do stuff). I would very much like to see this fixed.