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Clear text input: use system icon instead of x #84

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I guess this just happened because something had to be in the button, and a label would be too big. Right?

It looks rather prototypy:

bildschirmfoto vom 2015-08-04 00 58 36

Instead the system icon for "clear" should be used. Or better an inline x within the input box.¹ Or even more awesome and better: the inline clear icon of the system/toolkit.

Example (sorry, dark theme):

bildschirmfoto vom 2015-08-04 01 12 27

1: as known from mobile websites and mobile safari

BTW: Just looked at my desktop apps (~120) and qtpass is the only one with a clear button

Oh look, you don't have to do it yourself: https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-4.7/declarative-ui-components-searchbox.html

Other password managers like keepassx, keepass and last past choose another option. No clear functionality at all.

Source: quick google image search

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