[kde-guidelines] [KDE Usability] Password Field

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Divendres, 6 de desembre de 2013, a les 13:12:21, Björn Balazs va escriure:
> 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.

You say that "the visibility depends more on the environment than on the 
password" so I do not understand why you want to store the visibility since 
it's very possible that my environtment has changed. I think we should always 
default to "hiding" the password in a password field.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 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
> 
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