Re: [iPAQ] secrets/passwords

From: Tom <tom.a.t.lemuria.org>
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 10:47:39 EDT

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:06:17PM -0400, Todd Courtnage wrote:
> Didn't do a lot of testing, I'm in a rush, and did this in about 20
> minutes, and am going out. Seems to work ok, though.

it works ok, but it's clear that it wasn't meant for an ipaq.

three main issues:

- the screen size. even in landscape, it's way too wide. this should be
easy to solve by editing the layout and sizes a little.

- entering a password via xstroke is a pain. the error rate is just
much higher than on a keyboard. on the other hand, due to the much
smaller screen and ability to tilt it in any way, shoulder-surfing
shouldn't be so much of a problem, so maybe it can be tuned to show the
last character that was entered?

- instead of a user/password/comment, a single field would be much more
useful to me and solve part of problem one.

<sigh> looks like grabbing the source and doing some improvements is
the right thing to do. anyone care to help? I'll do it, but if I don't
have to do it on my own, it'll be much faster.

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