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Bug 530568 - Entries with visibility=FALSE should warn for caps-lock on
Entries with visibility=FALSE should warn for caps-lock on
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-04-29 14:53 UTC by Owen Taylor
Modified: 2008-09-29 21:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Owen Taylor 2008-04-29 14:53:27 UTC 
There has been a warning in GNOME display manager for a long time
if caps lock is on, but there are many other password entries in
the desktop, that also can cause users problems if caps-lock is on.

It really should just be a built in feature of any visibility=FALSE
entry .. if caps-lock is on, pop up a "tooltip" below the entry
with a warning  (visible whenever the entry is focused and 
caps-lock is on.)
Comment 1 Johan (not receiving bugmail) Dahlin 2008-04-29 15:01:12 UTC 
Isn't it up to the application to decide how to present that information?
However, that does not prevent a sane default behavior.
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2008-04-29 15:58:50 UTC 
Maybe there should be an option to turn the built-in display off, though if GTK+ has a decent job at this, I don't really see a need for app authors to replace it.

I certainly don't think the built-in should be off by default ... I'd much rather have GDM be mildly broken (double display of the warning) temporarily than have all password using apps broken forever because their authors didn't realize they had to enable an obscure option.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2008-09-29 21:57:46 UTC 
2008-09-29  Matthias Clasen  <mclasen@redhat.com>

        Bug 530568 – Entries with visibility=FALSE should warn for caps-lock
        on

        * gtk/gtkentry.c: Add a tooltip-like Caps Lock warning for
        password entries. The warning is also triggered if an input method
        is active. The warning can be turned off using the
        GtkEntry::caps-lock-warning property.
        Proposed by Owen Taylor