Hi,
Calum Benson wrote:
On 21 Feb 2006, at 22:54, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
On Feb 22, 2006, at 6:22 AM, William Jon McCann wrote:
...
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);
...
This seems like something that should Just Work in GTK (that is,
black dots should be the *default* character in a password field),
and that should therefore be out of scope of the HIG.
Yep, I'd second that. A bug against gtk sounds like the right course
of action here...
Actually, it gets more interesting.
It isn't quite as I said. XP uses 0x25CF and OS X uses 0x2022.
Fedora patches gtk+ to use 0x2022.
Also:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83935
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307304
What's a poor app writer to do?
Thanks,
Jon
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