On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 03:50:52PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > That’s why I think that seeing what you actually type is useful. >
Seeing the password is useful, unless someone is shoulder surfing while you install, which is possible. > Other options include: > > 1. Hiding the passphrase, but display right above it something like: > > Keyboard layout: <layout name> > > 2. Adding a checkbox to toggle password visibility. > > #1 is probably not great because it doesn’t help if you don’t know > precisely the layout. > > #2 would be nice; not sure how to do it, though. > > Ludo’. > #2 would please everybody, but I do not know what widgets Newt provides for this. Mathieu, would you know if changing the visibility with e.g. a checkbox is doable? Regards, Florian
