Password generating button

[ABuljko]

Issue ticket #301

• Generates randomised passwords

[robin-nitrokey]

I think it would be a nice feature to make the length and alphabet configurable. Unfortunately there are still some sites with arbitrary limitations. Maybe with a set of checkboxes per group of characters so that it is easy to select and deselect letters, numbers, punctuation and other symbols? And possibly an input field to add custom characters. What do you think?

[ABuljko]

Checkboxes per group- I think that this would be a good idea
Custom characters field- The user can just edit the generated password themselves in the field
Length- as for the length I think that it is fine, but in case websites have a cap on the number of characters a password could have is the only use case I see for this (This is just my opinion though, I am open to feedback)

To integrate this into the UI though it might be tricky, especially with the check-boxes. The only way I see it happening would be through a pop-up box appearing when pressing the generate button

[robin-nitrokey]

Custom characters field- The user can just edit the generated password themselves in the field

Okay.

Length- as for the length I think that it is fine, but in case websites have a cap on the number of characters a password could have is the only use case I see for this (This is just my opinion though, I am open to feedback)

Yes, one use case are sites with a length cap. Also it’s just a personal preference. For example I normally use 32 character passwords because why not?

To integrate this into the UI though it might be tricky, especially with the check-boxes. The only way I see it happening would be through a pop-up box appearing when pressing the generate button

Nitrokey App 2 is mostly trying to avoid popups and message boxes in favor of a more responsive design. To stay consistent with that, we could maybe insert the relevant widgets below the password box when clicking the "Generate" button. That being said, I’m not fully convinced by this responsive approach and still prefer more classical user interfaces, so a popup is also fine for me. :)

[ABuljko]

Yes, one use case are sites with a length cap. Also it’s just a personal preference. For example I normally use 32 character passwords because why not?

Haha oki then lets do it

Nitrokey App 2 is mostly trying to avoid popups and message boxes in favor of a more responsive design. To stay consistent with that, we could maybe insert the relevant widgets below the password box when clicking the "Generate" button. That being said, I’m not fully convinced by this responsive approach and still prefer more classical user interfaces, so a popup is also fine for me. :)

Oki then I will try the NK preferred option first IG, but I also personally think that it will look best as a pop-up since it might make the page too cluttery :)

[ABuljko]

PLS check the style I used 🍀🍀🍀

• Password length set from 1 to 64
• Added three checkboxes (number, letter, and symbol)
• If all three checkboxes are disabled and the user tries to generate a password they will receive a warning message

[robin-nitrokey]

Looks good. I have two suggestions:

• I think moving the password generation widgets to the second column (so that they align with the line edit) would make the UI clearer.
• Generating the password is cheap so we could always update the generated password when the user changes one of the four generation settings.

What do you think?

[ABuljko]

I like it 🍀
Will do it now 😄