On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, William Jon McCann wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:22:36 -0500 > From: William Jon McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field > > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:55 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote: > >>Bastien Nocera wrote: > >>>Isn't that already what GDM uses nowadays? > >> > >>(Here comes a potshot ;)) > >>As you might expect, this is configurable in gdm.conf. > > > > Yay! :) > > > > My guess is that you should use circles, and vendors that have default > > fonts without that symbol, they'll patch it back. > > 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);
Could/Shouldn't this all be taken care of in GTK for all password text entries rather than one app at a time? - Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
