Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

Hi,

Calum Benson wrote:

On 21 Feb 2006, at 22:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

On Feb 22, 2006, at 6:22 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:

...
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);
...


This seems like something that should Just Work in GTK (that is, black dots should be the *default* character in a password field), and that should therefore be out of scope of the HIG.


Yep, I'd second that. A bug against gtk sounds like the right course of action here...

Actually, it gets more interesting.

It isn't quite as I said. XP uses 0x25CF and OS X uses 0x2022.

Fedora patches gtk+ to use 0x2022.

Also:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83935
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307304

What's a poor app writer to do?

Thanks,
Jon
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