On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:22:02PM +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:54:14PM +1100, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
The old convention on Linux and Unix is to just suppress all feedback, but even on Linux GUI applications normally show bullets ??? or asterisks.
Modern GUIs show the real character for a short period of time and then replace it with an asterisk.
Ugh. I've only seen that on mobile devices, not on any desktop GUI,
On desktop (Windows) I saw a password entry with a checkbox to switch between real characters and asterisks.
and I think it's a sop to the terrible keyboards they have. I hope this NEVER becomes a standard on full-sized computers with real keyboards.
ChrisA
Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.