RE: HIG Dialog widget proposal
- From: <martyn 2 russell bt com>
- To: <sven gimp org>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: RE: HIG Dialog widget proposal
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:59:22 +0100
> > I thought the HIG says to use an empty title for a dialog/alert?
>
> It says so but it the authors have probably been on some bad crack
> when they wrote that. I agree that the default window manager
> behaviour should be not to list a message dialog in the taskbar and it
> should also suppress the title. But if your window manager doesn't
> implement this behaviour, not setting a window title let's you end up
> with a dialog labelled "Untitled Window" and I don't think that's
> desirable.
>
I agree, I sometimes think that perhaps a generic title would be more appropriate, for example, "Alert" or may be something related to the message, like "Information" or "Error", etc.
Regards,
Martyn
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