Michael Telatynski
Michael Telatynski
Looks like `openExternal` indeed does not signal any errors back to the caller: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/28141
> It shouldn't be necessary - or rather - it should be entirely optional per homeserver per user to decide whether they want to trust their desktop client to authenticate...
A lookup, no, a guess (by trying to redirect them and looking to see if they're still there a second later), yes
> Will you send logs? Yes Not seeing any logs linking to this issue
Please use the required log upload mechanism so that it is parsed by our rageshake tooling accordingly as per the issue template you agreed to: 
Looks like a duplicate of https://github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/25756
> The fix I would believe would be to extend the timeout locally but I have no idea how to go about this. https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/blob/7c876251575ebe0b17b97cd25ef7fe6308bca5de/src/http-api/index.ts#L72
@jackedproxy the flatpak package isn't maintained by us and has a number of known issues specific to itself: https://github.com/flathub/im.riot.Riot
> Why can't element-desktop talk to account.matrix.org itself Because MAS (and most other OIDC IdPs) do not allow a client to submit a username+password via any form of API, only...
> Is it possible to load and display external web content within an electron app? Yes, with the following issues: 1. Lack of user trust, tools like password managers won't...