lightdm doesn't provide visual feedback for accepted password

[Arthur Rodrigues]

Since I installed ubuntu precise I noticed that when you enter a valid password for your user account, lightdm simply freezes until the desktop session is fully loaded.
This, at first, made me think that my computer crashed while loading the session...

This behaviour is very similar to that when the password is incorrect, but the "wrong password" message takes less time to appear than the desktop.

If I'm not confusing things, I'm pretty sure that in early versions the dots that override password characters disappeared when you typed in the correct password, and stayed there when the password was wrong. This was a simple but effective visual feedback...

Now, we (or at least I) keep asking ourselves whether we entered the correct password or not until something tells us which one happened, after several seconds.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 94567cf45f6abbca45b2880b36a7237e
CheckboxSystem: 9c26adf6eed2f681ba41f94dd24c07e4
Date: Tue May 8 12:10:50 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)