Thanks for your plugin, its really handy.
A suggestion; Now all text gets the same color (default black on white). Why don't you split this in seperate colors for upper and lower case.
This plugin's purpose is to show different colors for letters, digits and special characters to avoid misreading similar characters, e. g. reading a lowercase l as digit 1.
Which uppercase letters can be misread as lowercase letters?
In addition: You wrote "Now all text gets the same color"
What do you mean with "now", was it different before using the plugin?
At the moment I don't see the added value of having different colors for uppercase / lowercase letters.
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I too would like the option to differentiate between upper- and lowercase characters.
With the default font Sergoe UI the iI is the same as the lL Il.
I saw in your reactie to Jack Konings from 2019-08-25 that you think adding this would overload the options screen. I altered a picture of the menu a bit as a preview. In my opinion it does not really change the look of the menu, but you can be the judge of that.
Version 0.6 now allows to have different colors for upper and lower case letters.
I meanwhile reworked the options screen.
Previously colors for text and background were shown below each other, now they are shown next to each other.
There freed up some space.
While I do see your points, I still don't feel it should be active right away.
Using two different colors for letters therefor is opt-in, simply tick the checkbox and select the colors.
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I think that i look to the plugin from another perspective. I find it helpfull to see if a password fullfils the minimal requirements most websites/logins force upon us (like at least one uppercase, one lowecase, one number and a special character). The password generator of KP also is divided in those categories.
So i primarily don't use the plugin for its enhanced readabilty (which BTW is a welcome property) but to easely check those minimal requirements.
Hence my suggestion to display upper- and lowercase text in different colors.
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I now understand the reasoning behind your request, thanks for clarifying this.
Nevertheless this is beyound this plugin's purpose and won't be added to not increase complexity and to avoid an overloaded options screen.
This plugin's purpose is to show different colors for letters, digits and special characters to avoid misreading similar characters, e. g. reading a lowercase l as digit 1.
Which uppercase letters can be misread as lowercase letters?
In addition: You wrote "Now all text gets the same color"
What do you mean with "now", was it different before using the plugin?
At the moment I don't see the added value of having different colors for uppercase / lowercase letters.
Rookiestyle,
I too would like the option to differentiate between upper- and lowercase characters.
With the default font Sergoe UI the iI is the same as the lL Il.
I saw in your reactie to Jack Konings from 2019-08-25 that you think adding this would overload the options screen. I altered a picture of the menu a bit as a preview. In my opinion it does not really change the look of the menu, but you can be the judge of that.
Could you please reconsider adding this feature?
Last edit: Simon Busé 2020-04-05
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Version 0.6 now allows to have different colors for upper and lower case letters.
I meanwhile reworked the options screen.
Previously colors for text and background were shown below each other, now they are shown next to each other.
There freed up some space.
While I do see your points, I still don't feel it should be active right away.
Using two different colors for letters therefor is opt-in, simply tick the checkbox and select the colors.
Hi Rookiestyle,
I think that i look to the plugin from another perspective. I find it helpfull to see if a password fullfils the minimal requirements most websites/logins force upon us (like at least one uppercase, one lowecase, one number and a special character). The password generator of KP also is divided in those categories.
So i primarily don't use the plugin for its enhanced readabilty (which BTW is a welcome property) but to easely check those minimal requirements.
Hence my suggestion to display upper- and lowercase text in different colors.
Hi Jack,
I now understand the reasoning behind your request, thanks for clarifying this.
Nevertheless this is beyound this plugin's purpose and won't be added to not increase complexity and to avoid an overloaded options screen.
If you need to create passwords following specific rules, please use the password generator and a customized profile as described here: https://keepass.info/help/base/pwgenerator.html#pattern
PasswordChangeAssistant let's you link a password profile to an entry and create a new password based on the linked profile:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/passwordchangeassistant/
This pattern will generate passwords with 20 characters and at least 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 digit and 1 special char
If you enable the 'Randomly permute characters of password' option this will generate passwords like these