On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Zed A. Shaw wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:33:12PM +0100, Stephan Beal wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> i've just added a feature which is highly arguable and therefore i  
>> want to
>> check the general opinion on the topic before i commit it:
>>
>> When logging in as the anonymous user, it is painful to not be able  
>> to
>> copy/paste the captcha into the login field. In my experience a  
>> simple
>
> I'd say no, I wouldn't want this feature is it makes bots trivial to
> implement.  The point of a captcha is to make it slightly painful, and
> since this is a tool designed for developers I don't see much of a
> problem with the current captcha.
>
> However, if it were an optional setting then there'd be nothing wrong
> with it being there.  Those who need simpler user input could turn it
> on, and those who need more spam/bot blocking can turn it off.


I was going to suggest the same thing, but Zed beat me to it....

Another thing that would be really cool:  Add a feature to the Setup  
menu that gives the administrator a choice of several "skins" for  
Fossil using a single button click.  Leave the current look as the  
default, but make the wonderinghorse.net skin one of the preferred  
options.

D. Richard Hipp
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