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Bug 149694 - tab after name entry should take you to the next screen (usually password)
tab after name entry should take you to the next screen (usually password)
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-09 04:52 UTC by shakti
Modified: 2004-08-18 19:08 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Proposed Patch (1.59 KB, patch)
2004-08-09 04:55 UTC, shakti 		none Details | Review

Description shakti 2004-08-09 04:52:05 UTC 
Users are more habituted for movement between Username and password
fields by hitting the <TAB> key.   The gdm login screen does not
allow the TAB key as a request for movement between fields.
Comment 1 shakti 2004-08-09 04:55:25 UTC 
Created attachment 30356 [details] [review]
Proposed Patch
Comment 2 George Lebl 2004-08-18 19:08:20 UTC 
You cannot differentiate between username and password prompts like that because
they may not come in that order or it may not be just those two prompts.  PAM is
a general system and could ask any type of questions it wants.  There is a semi
broken detection of username prompt, but I think it is much better if TAB is not
allowed to be consistent.  Having the tab work only on one of the prompts and
only some of the time is just not good UI.