Re: [Usability] gdm user/pass prompt

[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt myrealbox com>]

On Sep 8, 2007, at 3:22 AM, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2007/9/7, Jacob Beauregard <jake13jake comcast net>:
> > I'm just wondering, who has -never- accidentally started typing in 
> > their password as their username with gdm?
>
> I have written it accidentally to an open terminal with IRC client in
> it and even pressed enter.
>
> But does the GDM prompt have any specific issues that would induce
> this behaviour or was this just a poll?
> ...

In Ubuntu's default GDM theme, at least, the password prompt has 
exactly the same size and position as the login name prompt.

Which is a bit unfortunate.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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