Am Dienstag, den 20.01.2009, 11:59 +0100 schrieb Christian Dywan: > Am Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:17:50 -0500 > schrieb Yu Feng <rainwood...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi Federico, > > > > If I can have a word on this: > > > > The big circle is wider than most characters. > > > > Compare the following 3 patterns: (10 chars, monospace) > > ●●●●●●●●●● > > •••••••••• > > 1234567890 > > > > When people type in a password they don't expect it to look much > > longer than what has been typed, right? > > Although the original question has been answered already, for the > record, those three examples of yours have all the very same size in my > font, which happens to be monospace. Beside that, the user is only > ever seeing a number of occurences of a single character. So there is > nothing to compare a wider or larger character to. The whole idea > behind "invisible" characters is that they don't reflect the actual > password in the first place.
I wonder if the default password character shouldn't be a style property. In that case you could use big circles for the default theme, small circles for monospaced themes and pumpkins or skulls for Halloween themes. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Hasselmann <mathias.hasselm...@gmx.de> Personal Blog: http://taschenorakel.de/mathias/ Openismus GmbH: http://www.openismus.com/ _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list