Idea #7700: Caps Lock Warning when Password is to be entered.

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Written by virsli100 the 27 Apr 08 at 11:46. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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There should be a caps-lock warning everywhere, where any manual typing of passwords is required. This way you wont mistype it accidentally leaving the caps-lock on.

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brunovecchi wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 14:16

What do you mean by 'everywhere'. Using gksudo, there is a warning when capslock is on.

K-Man wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 17:30

Indeed. Computer manufacturers should even built small light indicators into their hardware that light up whenever caps lock is on. Why has noone ever thought of this?!

Then we could built a special ubuntu branch which brings up huge notification windows reading "YOU ARE TYPING A PASSWORD AND YOUR CAPS LOCK LAMP IS ON. LOOK 20 CM DOWN!".

That'd be perfect!

brunovecchi wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 18:35

lol @K-Man

Prime Mover wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 18:45

Ubuntu should just disable the caps lock key in the default install.

wvengen wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 20:09

What about a (gtk,qt,...) password widget with that built-in? (e.g. a tooltip or icon in textbox)

Auzy wrote on the 28 Apr 08 at 01:59

Apple approaches this in an elegant way actually.. It adds a symbol to the side of the textbox so you instantly know (cant find a screenshot though.

We can do the same, and people will notice easier

And btw, some keyboards don't have the little light that lights up..

wleoncio wrote on the 28 Apr 08 at 11:18

Little icon. Good. :)

virsli100 wrote on the 28 Apr 08 at 19:57

Oh yes, the notification can come in the form of an icon of course!

ethana2 wrote on the 30 Apr 08 at 23:40

Prime Mover, right on. I use colemak.
www.colemak.com

....caps has never been anything but a problem to anyone I know, and it needs to be blasted off the face of the earth and replaced by backspace, as it is in aforementioned layout.

virsli100 wrote on the 1 May 08 at 21:13

ethana2: good point, I wish I had a normal layout with caps-lock changed to backspace. (Since Colemak takes too much time at the beginning, but only this button change could right make a difference)

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