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 Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 4:20 am Post subject: password echo mode to mac-style "dots" |
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I was wondering if there was a way in KDE/mozilla/gnome to echo dots (html code "●") in password fields (like a Mac does) instead of 1 star, 3 stars, no stars.
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IIRC, Mosfet's Liquid does this for QT apps. It would be nice in other programs too... shouldn't be hard to do.
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| tactless wrote: | | IIRC, Mosfet's Liquid does this for QT apps. It would be nice in other programs too... shouldn't be hard to do. |
I'm not sure about Mosfet's Liquid doing this. I didn't see any evidence of it on kde-look.org, but I don't have it installed, so I don't know for sure.
I would put forth the effort to do this for some kde and/or some apps if I knew how. You say is shouldn't be hard to do. Does this mean you know or at least have an idea as to how to do something like this?
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Well, this would definetely call for code changing... I'm not experienced enough in C to know how to implement this myself, but I do know this: The password characters are definetely not hard-coded, as you can configure them. Supposing that echoing passwords is done by printing a certain string (null, * or ***) several times, all that is required is adding a new option for this in the configuration. The dot isn't, AFAIK, in standard ASCII, so that might cause problems.
If I were you, I'd post a bug about this in the relevant Bugzilla databases (don't forget to search first  ).
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I haven't ever used bugzilla before. I'm not sure what a relevant bugzilla database would be. Is there a KDE bugzilla?
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Just an FYI...
| tactless wrote: | | The dot isn't, AFAIK, in standard ASCII, so that might cause problems. |
| man ascii wrote: | | 056 46 2E . |
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Actually, this is what we're looking for:
man iso_8859_1
| Code: | | 267 183 B7 . MIDDLE DOT |
[/code]
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| tactless wrote: | Actually, this is what we're looking for:
man iso_8859_1
| Code: | | 267 183 B7 · MIDDLE DOT |
[/code] |
Right, maybe a bit more bold, but that could be fixed with font. The ideal representation is that which is produced by the html code I gave above, ●
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Sorry, I dont have an answer but instead another question in regard to password echoing....Can you have the echoed password at console login? I like have the little stars but it could be anything.
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This probably won't work in the console... and I wouldn't want that, either. Asterisks look just fine as password characters in the console (and xterms), but if you're using a graphical environment, mac-style dots look much better.
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