[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Unconstrained input

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Sat Jun 22 20:09:29 UTC 2013


On Saturday 22 June 2013 20:15:28 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> 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?

How about "Free Text Input"? I think the differentiation free vs. constrained 
input is sufficient.


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