Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

[Alan Horkan <horkana maths tcd ie>]

On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, William Jon McCann wrote:

> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:22:36 -0500
> From: William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>
> To: Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> Cc: usability gnome org
> 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