Re: Window subtitles

[perriman <chuchiperriman gmail com>]

Hi all!

I think that we don't need know the app name. When I open evolution, i
don't need to see "evolution - new mail", only "New Mail" in the title
woks fine for me. 

What do you think?

Regards,
	Chuchi

El vie, 16-02-2007 a las 17:26 -0700, Gezim Hoxha escribi� On Fri, 2007-16-02 at 20:16 +0000, Alex Jones wrote:
> > Hi list
> > 
> > Another crackpot idea for you. A lot of applications name their windows
> > in the form "Some Thing - Some Application". Some just name their
> > windows in the form "Some Thing", relying on the icon to portray more
> > information about the window.
> > 
> > I think the latter form is recommended by GNOME HIG, but I'm not so sure
> > it's the best option when one particular object can have many windows. A
> > recent example I brought up with Gossip (which has since been adjusted
> > for) is that, given all this Telepathy stuff, we're likely to see many
> > windows for the same person. In such a case, "John Smith -
> > Conversation", "John Smith - File Sharing", "John Smith - Video Call"
> > would be a lot better than "John Smith", "John Smith", "John Smith",
> > even if they did all have different icons.
> > 
> > So it seems, from my POV, that it's a good idea to portray an extra bit
> > of information about a window, a "window subtitle" (in contrast to
> > "window title"), so to speak. Like I said, many applications are already
> > implicitly doing this just by using a - to separate the title from the
> > subtitle.
> > 
> > Perhaps it would be a good idea for Gtk to have support for setting
> > "window subtitles", and for now it could simply communicate that with
> > the WM as being "title - subtitle", but this gives us the flexibility to
> > do more fancy things such as those illustrated by the (albeit rather old
> > now) Tango window experiment mockups
> > <http://tango.freedesktop.org/Window_Experiments>, and probably a few
> > other things, too.
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> 
> 
> I really like the idea and I was always opposed to that HIG suggestion
> that window titles should only contain document information.
> 
> -Gezim
> 
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