Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, William Jon McCann wrote:

Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:22:36 -0500
From: William Jon McCann <mccann@xxxxxxx>
To: Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: usability@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

Bastien Nocera wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
Bastien Nocera wrote:
Isn't that already what GDM uses nowadays?

(Here comes a potshot ;))
As you might expect, this is configurable in gdm.conf.

Yay! :)

My guess is that you should use circles, and vendors that have default
fonts without that symbol, they'll patch it back.

Any chance we can get a line added to the HIG "Text Entry Fields"
Guidelines that says something like:

* A text entry that is used for requesting a password from the user
should hide the contents of the entry by using a black circle (Unicode
0x25cf) for each character. Example:
gtk_entry_set_visibility (entry, FALSE);
gtk_entry_set_invisible_char (entry, 0x25cf);

Could/Shouldn't this all be taken care of in GTK for all password text
entries rather than one app at a time?

- Alan

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