Re: [Usability] Use circles in password field

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

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.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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