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GpgOL: Pinentry prompt not shown for smartcards when signing
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When signing with a Smartcard and the Smartcard is not inserted GpgOL will show the "encrypting ..." overlay and disable the outlook window.

The Pinentry dialog to insert the smartcard is never shown, though. In the GPGME log I can see that pinentry launched. My suspicion is that the AttachThreadInput trick we use to bring pinentry to the foreground, and which now is implemented in qtbase causes pinentry to attach to a disabled outlook and not to our enabled overlay.

I am curious though why this only happens for Smartcards and not with the general password entry field.

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rP Pinentry
rP835b690cbd85 qt: Use Dialogs foregroundwindow code in confirm

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• aheinecke triaged this task as High priority.Aug 12 2022, 12:28 PM
• aheinecke created this task.
• aheinecke added a commit: rP835b690cbd85: qt: Use Dialogs foregroundwindow code in confirm.Aug 12 2022, 2:40 PM
• aheinecke changed the task status from Open to Testing.Aug 12 2022, 2:44 PM
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This works now with the fix in pinentry that uses the same code to bring the smartcard insertion dialog to the front as we use in the password entry dialog.
Before I was able to reproduce the issue, now it works as expected:

• ikloecker added a subscriber: • ikloecker.Aug 12 2022, 4:42 PM

Does the progress bar really say "Verschlusseln" (with u instead of ü) or this is a bug in the screen capture tool? In the pinentry dialog there are also two ü that are displayed as u.

• aheinecke added a comment.Aug 13 2022, 10:12 AM

Right, I think I never fixed this but someone changed the ü to u in translation to workaround it. That was what https://dev.gnupg.org/T4637 is about. I think I'll reopen this one.

• aheinecke mentioned this in T4637: GpgOL: Encoding problems in German.Aug 13 2022, 10:13 AM
• ebo closed this task as Resolved.Apr 26 2023, 12:24 PM
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works. Including "Verschlüsseln".

• werner mentioned this in T5566: Release Pinentry 1.2.x.Mar 18 2024, 12:20 PM