Re: default invisible char
- From: Pavel Machek <pavel ucw cz>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: default invisible char
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 05:15:40 +0000
Hi!
> Random suggestion: why don't we use bullets instead of asterisks as
> the default password entry char? (The mac does this.) Kind of a
> snazzy touch, less ascii-art, more unicode-enabled.
>
> I don't know how often we will be missing this glyph though.
> Certainly it isn't in the fixed font.
While you are at it, you might want to echo random number (1-4?) of those
characters for each char typed. VSTa does that. Advantage is that random
people do not know your root passwd is 4 chars long.
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