Comment 17 for bug 1077546

That could even be security relevant if I am not paying attention wether the bug appears or not:
If I type and bug appears (in my case on gnome 3) the gnome shell search field gets the focus.
So every character I type after the focus change appears clearly visible for every person sitting around me (or following vnc stream etc).
Typing the passphrase of an super user in a clear text field is definitely something which is somehow relevant (at least in my opinion).