Re: Avoiding the name of an application in Menus?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 22 Feb 2006, at 14:41, Joachim Noreiko wrote:
> I don't think it mentions this in connection with
> window titles or application names across other parts
> of the desktop though.
> I would very much like to see app names in the format
> "Epiphany Web Browser" all the way across the desktop,
> window titles, documentation, etc.

FWIW, the HIG also says that window titles should primarily feature  
the name of the document, web page etc. that's in the window, only  
followed by the application name if it's necessary for  
disambiguation.  So you should rarely need to see the name of the  
application in a title bar... and if you do, you'd want it to be a  
short as possible (rather than "Sound Juicer CD Ripper" or "Epiphany  
Web Browser"), as it's likely to be truncated.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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