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User sba changed the following:
What |Old value |New value
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CC|'khirano,sba' |'cd,khirano,sba,tl,tm'
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Assigned to|tm |mav
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Issue type|DEFECT |ENHANCEMENT
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Target milestone|--- |OOo 3.x
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------- Additional comments from [email protected] Thu Jun 25 15:39:18 +0000
2009 -------
My understanding of "normal use" of a password dialog is "Type your pw and while
you can NOT see it (so that someone looking over your shoulder can not read
it)".
An IME is a help to input non-standard letters (keyboard is too small for all
Japanese or Chinese) - this is acheived by a preview and a UI-supported help tp
choose the right character.
Putting this together:
Showing characters of a password while typing it is not OK for security reasons
Conclusion: IME use makes no sense in PW dialogs. Do not use "on-ASCII native
characters.
I believe that Firefox and IE development made some User Experience research. I
believe that following their example makes sense.
I just spoke to CD and he told me that a "general solution" would be "do this
for all edit fields that have the password flag". I.e. when inserting
pw-protected sections in a Wrtiter docxument, or PW dialogs called by API
(macro).
Since the document PW dialog is the most important one, I suggest to "at least"
change it for this one now nad maybe for the rest "later" (maybe another
issue?).
Reassigned to MAV.
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