[kde-guidelines] [KDE Usability] Password Field

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 7 de desembre de 2013, a les 19:28:05, Thomas Pfeiffer va 
escriure:
> On Saturday 07 December 2013 18:08:23 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2013-12-07, Björn Balazs <b at lazs.de> wrote:
> > > I assume that the environment does not change that often. When I work in
> > > a
> > > train (and hence want to hide passwords) I do this for quite some time.
> > > So
> > > I thought I might be a good idea to keep the last state. Also there is
> > > not a lot of potential harm, as you immediately see whether the password
> > > is shown or not - so you can toggle the mode to the desired state.
> > > 
> > > The idea is to be convenient - which most of the time somehow interferes
> > > with security.
> > 
> > I'd love to be able to toggle the password visibility in more cases than
> > it currently is possible today. So yes. Toggle buttons everywhere.
> > 
> > And let it default to being 'stars' or similar symbols. Security trumps
> > convenience. We can't let users having their password snooped by the
> > co-passengers or co-workers or just people who pass by you while sitting
> > in
> > a Cofe.
> 
> 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? 

So now remebering that a while ago you had set the password to show in a 
computer you don't use much (as your laptop for some people) makes you stupid?

> And even if they
> forget, they should notice after the first characters appear.

Not my father, he's not good at touch typing so he doesn't look at all at the 
screen while typing becase otherwise he can't find the appropiate keys.

Cheers,
  Albert

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