Re: Window subtitles

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:57 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2007/2/17, Gezim Hoxha <gezimetc shaw ca>:
> > I really like the idea and I was always opposed to that HIG suggestion
> > that window titles should only contain document information.

> The main motivation for the instructions in the HIG is  most likely
> the sad example where you have 5 different apps and 10 windows in
> your task bar, all of them labeled "Micros...".

Exactly-- the essence of the HIG guideline is just that the most
distinguishing information be shown first.  In most cases, that /is/ a
document title or filename rather than the application name, but I'd
certainly consider it to be in the spirit of the HIG guideline for a
particular application to do something different (but sensible!) to make
its windows easier to tell apart.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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