KPasswordDialog

[George Staikos]

A few issues have come up recently with KPasswordDialog and, more importantly, 
KPasswordEdit.  I think both of these classes need to be deprecated, and 
KPasswordDialog rewritten.  Here's why:

1) KLineEdit provides everything that KPasswordDialog does, but better, in 
that it allows selection without setting the X selection or clipboard.  (it 
makes editting easier, and there is a wishlist for this)
2) It doesn't work properly with UTF-8 passwords  (there is a bug report for 
this)
3) KPasswordDialog doesn't seem to be fixable without breaking binary 
compatibility or doing messy things

I notice the careful attention to using a char* for storing the password, but 
is this really necessary?  I think QString is perfectly acceptable - we have 
many other ways people can steal passwords from memory anyway.

The final question is, given all of this, does anyone feel like taking on this 
job?  It should be rather straightforward...

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George Staikos
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Staikos Computing Services Inc.		http://www.staikos.net/