Re: set your application title

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Bastien asked:
> 
> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:59, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This bug reminded me - 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108356
> > 
> > Apps should call g_set_application_name() with the name of the
> > application (should be a translated string, along the lines of
> > "Terminal" or "Calculator" or "Gnumeric" or perhaps "Gnumeric
> > Spreadsheet").
> > 
> > We should probably have a HIG guideline (should it be the same string
> > as the Name field in the .desktop file? probably so).
> 
> That surely only applies to applications that can be launch multiple
> times or create multiple windows, right ?

Actually it helps accessibility too, and as Havoc said there's no real
cost in doing so.

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Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>