On Sun, 27.03.11 23:52, Jan Engelhardt ([email protected]) wrote: > > On Friday 2011-03-18 01:41, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > >On Fri, 18.03.11 00:18, Jan Engelhardt ([email protected]) wrote: > > > >> Meanwhile, I have two new suggestions. > > > >I have one too (or actually Kay came up with it), and I think you are > >going to like it: > > > >Start with showing input feedback as we currently do. If the user then > >presses TAB the stars disappear, and instead we show "(no echo)" or > >so. Then, the user can proceed with typing his password without > >asterisks. > >[...] > > Incorporating Graham's suggestion to use BKSP instead:
Hmm? Backspace? Why backspace? I am not sure I like the idea and neither does Kay who I discussed this with earlier today. If people mistype their passwords, they tend to backspace them away again, and start anew. I am pretty sure if they do that they'd be quite surprised if the password is hidden completely even when they try to retype it afterwards. I think it would be a bad idea to overload an existing key with a well defined meaning with a different meaning, based on where the cursor is. To keep things simple we should pick a currently unused key, which TAB is. TAB in most UIs is used to switch between different UI elements. I think this translates relatively well to the different display modes in this context. I have commited your patch nonetheless, but then replaced Backspace by TAB in a subsequent patch. Would be cool if you could check if the version in git still does what you need. Thanks for your patch! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
