Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

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);

Calum?

Jon