[kde-guidelines] [KDE Usability] Password Field

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Sunday 08 December 2013 00:02:37 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2013-12-07, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> > Unless we assume people are stupid, we can assume that they will set it to
> > masking again once they go to a public place, can't we? And even if they
> > forget, they should notice after the first characters appear.
> 
> I guess you can assume I'm stupid.

You're not. You haven't had the chance to try such a system, though, so you 
cannot know whether you'd forget about the status. And you wouldn't have to 
_remember_ it anyway, because it would be shown to you by an icon right next 
to the password field.

> I don't remember which settings I changed here and there. And this is
> important. I don't want to accidantally expose myself and my passwords.
> I would expect most people to have it the same way.
> 
> A scenario could be:
> 
> Sune sits tired at his hotel, just arrived after a tired day of
> travelling and just need to check his mail and such stuff before heading
> out to find some dinner. He has a password from the hotel for the
> wireless that is thK89Lec.837ed.f and his first attempts of entering
> fails. Then he tries again, clicks 'show password' and fixes the
> uppercase l. Reads his mail and sees that his dinner date is moved 30
> minutes earlier. He rushes off and have dinner and a few drinks and a
> good nights sleep. Next morning, Sune is at a conference and everybody
> has the possibility to see other people's screens. Sune needs to enter
> the password to the company email, and has forgotten about the setting,
> and thus everybody sees his password.
> 
> The solution is clear:
> So toggle button, and visibility always off, please.

It is not clear, the discussion is still on.