Bug#1032473: debian-installer: Put the Show Password in Clear prompt above the Password prompt
Package: debian-installer
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: charlescurley@charlescurley.com
Dear Maintainer,
In a normal installation, one is prompted for information that is highly confidential, such as passwords and encrypted partitions. In the regular (non-GUI) installer one moves from field to field with the tab key, tab to go forward, shift tab to go backward. Similarly in the GUI, except that one can also use the mouse.
In the current password prompt, to show the password in clear, one must tab to that prompt, hit the space bar to activate showing the password in clear, then shift tab back to enter the password itself.
If the Show Password in Clear prompt were above the password prompt, it would be faster: space bar to show the password in clear, then tab to enter the password. The downside is for those users who do not want to show the password in clear: it adds an extra tab keystroke for them. How often does one really need that obfuscation?
Request: put the Show Password in Clear prompt above the password prompt.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU thread; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
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