Password entry has no emblem to displaying what you type

[John Lenton]

In Focal the network password / passphrase entry form has no way of displaying what is being typed.

I'd expect a checkbox or something...

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.442
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-9.12-generic 5.4.3
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.438
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jan 22 11:13:41 2020
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200117)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=C.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for the bug report, you should be able to find an item to show the password in the right click menu, that's not obvious though which is reported upstream on https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1022

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is fixed in git (adding an icon to click in the entry), the fix should land in Ubuntu with the next updates

[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0)]

It's actually fixed also in previous version, just right-click the entry (or press down-arrow) and you will be able to see the password.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Ignore the "notfixing" part then. A solution is already released and a _better_ solution is still coming in gnome-shell 3.36.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell - 3.35.91-1ubuntu2

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gnome-shell (3.35.91-1ubuntu2) focal; urgency=medium

  * control: Fix package for Yaru Breaks. It's called `yaru-theme-gnome-shell`
    and not `yaru-theme`
  * control: Bump Breaks on appindicator and desktop-icons.
    These have been updated for GNOME 3.36

gnome-shell (3.35.91-1ubuntu1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Merge with Debian. Remaining changes:
    + Replace gnome-backgrounds dep with ubuntu-wallpapers and Suggests
      gnome-themes-standard-data, gnome-backgrounds
    + Add some Recommends:
      - ubuntu-session (| gnome-session) to have the ubuntu session available
      - xserver-xorg-legacy
      - yaru-theme-gnome-shell for the default ubuntu theming
    + Update debian/gbp.conf with Ubuntu settings
    + gnome-shell-common.install: Install Ubuntu mode
    + gnome-shell-common.prerm: Remove deprecated ubuntu theme alternative
    + ubuntu/desktop_detect.patch:
      - add caching for desktop detection to avoid querying the current
        desktop env variable as iterate through the list each time. For the
        time of the Shell process, we can expect this env variable to stay
        stable.
    + ubuntu/smarter_alt_tab.patch:
      - quick alt-tab (without showing up the switcher) switch only between
        the last window of the last 2 applications to be focused instead of
        raising all windows of those apps.
    + ubuntu/lightdm-user-switching.patch:
      - Allow user switching when using LightDM.
    + ubuntu/lock_on_suspend.patch
      - Respect Ubuntu's lock-on-suspend setting.
    + ubuntu/background_login.patch
      - Change default background color as we modified the default GDM color
        for our ubuntu session.
    + ubuntu/gdm_alternatives.patch
      - Add support for GDM3 theme alternatives
    + optional-hot-corner.patch
      - enable patch proposed by upstream developer already in package (but
        not in series) to add a settings for optional hot corner activation.
    + main-show-an-error-message-on-gnome-shell-crash.patch,
      global-make-possible-to-set-debug-flags-dynamically.patch,
      main-increase-the-granularity-of-backtraces-in-SHELL_DEBU.patch,
      main-add-backtrace-crashes-all-and-backtrace-all.patch,
      sessionMode-add-support-for-debugFlags-parameter.patch:
      - Improve debug JS tracing for crash reports
    + st-scroll-view-Handle-the-case-where-scrollbars-are-NULL.patch:
      - Fix crash on theme changes
    + ubuntu/search-call-XUbuntuCancel-method-on-providers-when-no-dat.patch:
      - stop searches when requested from UI
    + magnifier-Show-cursor-when-magnifier-is-enabled-and-scale.patch:
      - Show monitor scaled cursor when magnifier is enabled
    + Break gnome-shell-extension-appindicator (<< 30)
    + Break gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons (<< 19.01.3+git20190814)
    + Break gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (<< 67ubuntu20.04.1)
    + Break yaru-theme (<< 20.04.2)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump breaks on gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (<< 67ubuntu20.04.1)
    - Bump breaks on gnome-shell-extension-dashtodock (<< 67+git20200225-1)
    - Bump breaks on yaru-theme...