[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 2/2] Add support to view the password entry content

Fabiano Fidêncio fabiano at fidencio.org
Mon Sep 15 16:47:09 UTC 2014


On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Jonathon Jongsma <jjongsma at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:46 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>> > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:27:57PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 13:25 +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>> > > > Hey,
>> > > >
>> > > > Why not if we want to let the user unobscure the password. The icon
>> is a
>> > > > bit weird though, I would not know what it's about without clicking
>> on
>> > > > it.
>> > > > Code looks good.
>> > >
>> > > I loved the icon :-) That's the *only* reason I ended up in
>> file-roller
>> > > code, looking for the icon name.
>> > > Do you have any suggestion about another icon that could be used?
>> >
>> > Maybe a padlock if there is such an icon? but I guess ideally we'd
>> > dynamically change it depending on whether the text is shown or not, ...
>> > so most likely not worth the complication.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Do you know if there is anybody working on adding this sort of
>> functionality in a more generic way into GTK+ itself?
>
>
> I have asked Jakub Steiner (jimmac) for thoughts about the better way to
> do this and he didn't mention anything about a more generic way, what makes
> me thing there is anyone working on this.
>
>
>> If this feature
>> did get added to GTK+ directly, how would that interact with this
>> implementation?
>>
>
> If this features get added to GTK+ directly in the future, we can simply
> remove this small patch.
>

*If this feature gets added ... argh! ..

Best Regards,
-- 
Fabiano Fidêncio
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