[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Unconstrained input

Heiko Tietze heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com
Sat Jun 22 18:15:28 UTC 2013


Am Freitag, 21. Juni 2013, 22:53:21 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
> On Friday 21 June 2013 16:10:47 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> 
> I completely agree with everything, but I'd make some additions to this:
> > * Mask letters if edit is used to enter passwords.
> 
> ** When setting a new password, have it entered twice to prevent typos in
> passwords.
> ** Provide a "Show password" checkbox to unmask the password both when
> setting new and when entering existing passwords
> 
Okay, plus: "Show password" checkbox is not checked by default" (As a remark: 
This is not standard in KDE yet it is desirable)

But how should we name the section? Edits, Inputs? 
And which kind of differntiation is necessary?


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