When entering a password with the keyboard on an external screen, the letters are shown in plaintext
Bug #1537810 reported by
Michael Zanetti
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical Pocket Desktop |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| qtubuntu (Ubuntu) |
New
|
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
This feature (the last character of a password is shown in plaintext for a second) is quite nice for devices where the input method is likely to produce mistakes (aka OSK) in combination of a small screen that can only be seen by the user (phone, tablet).
In pocket desktop however, the fact that your passwords are being shown cleartext on a big, external screen is quite nasty. The TextField component should not use this feature if input is coming from a physical keyboard.
| affects: | ubuntu-ui-toolkit → ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu) |
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Zsombor Egri (zsombi) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-ui-toolkit (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
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The text is shown clear because the timeout comes from QPA. So this is more like a QPA than a toolkit bug.