[kde-guidelines] Password Field

[Björn Balazs]

Hi,

working with Jan on the Networkmanager, I stumbled over a problem we face in 
many areas:

Entering Passwords

The problem I want to address is about the visibility of the password. To 
avoid errors, it would be cool to see the password, but if I am in an public 
environment, this might be not such a good idea.

Hence the visibility depends rather on my environment, than on the actual 
password I have to enter.

I think this is something we should solve centrally. I think of something 
like:

Password: [____________][VIS]

So there should be toggle button [VIS] directly attached to the password field 
that toggles the visibility. I could imagine that its state could be stored 
centrally, so when I have to enter the next Password, visibility is like it 
was the last time.

Perhaps we could even bind it to some environmental variables, like: Power not 
attached? -> Hide Password.

Side note: There are some solutions, that display the last entered digit for a 
short time, so a toggle solution might be not sufficient - or we need a 3 
state toggle something...

What do you think?

Cheers,
Björn