[Bug 912702] Re: [MASTER] Endlessly many "Wireless Network Authentication Required" dialogs put up

[Emma]

Same problem here (Mint 14), whenever a secured connection has a weak
signal.  Of course, the immediate way to avoid waking up to a computer
slowed down by hundreds of dialogs is to disable wireless overnight when
in the presence of such a network, but that's not a good fix overall.

I agree that if the login information is missing or incorrect then
Mathieu's fix is the right thing--just stop trying to connect until the
user supplies new information.  But in most cases where I have come
across this bug the login information is already correct, and the issue
is instead (as far as I can tell) that the signal isn't good enough to
get it across reliably.  In such a case it is preferable to just try
again without consulting the user to verify the password.

Perhaps if it is hard to implement the "at most one dialog" approach,
you could instead add a "don't ask me to authenticate for this network
again" flag in the dialog?  Ideally, this would turn just the relevant
network from Mathieu's behavior (always ask and wait for authentication)
to the bad signal behavior (always retry without asking).  Of course,
there should be a similar flag in the connection preferences (perhaps
near "connect automatically") where this option could be unset.

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Title:
  [MASTER] Endlessly many "Wireless Network Authentication Required"
  dialogs put up

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