vnc password style * instead of | english XP OS

redge · Post by **redge** » 2005-07-09 01:37

I think you use antoher police is not available on english but available on non english windows XP
or another reason ?

winvnc 1.1.0.0 or 1.1.0.1 .. admin properties

now, that show bad style |||||||| of hidden password XP english
better would be ********
to be same as XP french working

sgt-d · Post by **sgt-d** » 2005-07-11 13:35

i would rather see the password field filled with the letter "l" (the lowercase letter "L") - but also using the wingdings font. this would result in a black dot for each character - just like the password fields in windows xp.

DougBird · Post by **DougBird** » 2005-07-16 12:39

I was surprized to see the strange pipe character | for my password. What a user expects is going to be as mentioned, a astrick * or dot of some sort. Pipe symbols are just very odd.

mbrown · Post by **mbrown** » 2005-07-20 13:49

I actually like the pipe character in the password field and hope it doesn't change. If you are that concerned about it, make a poll on the forums. It would be interesting to see how many people like it versus dislike it.

Mitre · Post by **Mitre** » 2005-07-20 14:15

i do prefer the * too

netwolf · Post by **netwolf** » 2005-07-20 17:02

I definitely prefer the *.
IMO the | look like a graphical glitch...

josephgreenberg · Post by **josephgreenberg** » 2005-07-22 21:22

asterisk is pretty much a defacto standard, the pipe character is certainly very unusual.

Terriff · Post by **Terriff** » 2005-11-26 09:33

Take a look at this open-source C++ project. They show the password character as dots: http://keepass.sourceforge.net/

AbqBill · Post by **AbqBill** » 2006-01-08 01:34

I agree with the original poster, although I wouldn't classify this as a "bug." It's merely aesthetic, but it is peculiar looking, compared with all other password dialogs I've ever seen or used.

Developers, can we get a selectable character or style for the password text box in the VNC viewer? (This same issue is for the server's password text box as well.)

Thanks

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Bill Stewart

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2006-02-10 13:23

Just for the record, this phenomenon is not restriceted to english XPs.

And yes, I also find those 'lines' rather irritating.

redge · Post by **redge** » 2006-03-11 14:37

AbqBill wrote:I agree with the original poster, although I wouldn't classify this as a "bug." It's merely aesthetic, but it is peculiar looking, compared with all other password dialogs I've ever seen or used.

I moved from bug rel 1.0.0 to feature request
Thank you for your hint.

Agrajag · Post by **Agrajag** » 2006-03-11 22:01

Same here. It's a minor, minor issue but if it's getting attention then it might as well get addressed to meet common usage. An asterisk or dot would be most intuitive.