For the reasons cited above, I think we shouldn’t use placeholder text for any field, except when we’re extremely short on space *and* text is vital to understand the field. The former is never the case in a scrollable dialog like this one: we can use a label and/or a caption instead.
I doubt any of those placeholders improve understanding except for “At least 8 characters”. That should be a caption below the field instead (with the benefit that it could turn the error color if you unfocused the field non-empty without satisfying the requirement). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582309 Title: Example e-mail address is pointless To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntuone-credentials/+bug/1582309/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
