Review Request: Reset password field to be empty for subsequent attempts to open the wallet

Ralf Jung ralfjung-e at gmx.de
Tue Sep 27 12:38:27 BST 2011


Hi,

On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:15:47 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Monday, September 26, 2011 21:59:04 Ralf Jung wrote:
> > http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102714/
> > 
> > When the first attempt to open a wallet fails, clear the password field
> > for the second one
> 
> What is the advantage of this over selecting the password? Typing a new one
> is exactly the same amount of keystrokes, and having the "wrong" password
> filled in gives a hint at what went wrong. I often see "ow, that many
> letters, then I mistyped this and that. It also makes it harder to correct
> mistakes by just editing a part.
> 
> I might be missing something here, but not clearing (but selecting) seems
> like a better compromise. No?
Indeed, that would have the same result. And if I just tested correctly that 
is already the default behaviour with KDE 4.7? I am still at 4.6 for my main 
system, so I did not notice that this was changed... sorry.

Kind regards,
Ralf




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