RE: HIG Dialog widget proposal

[Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com>]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 11:59, ext wrote:
> > > 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.

Oh, please, no.  That way the title will look like there's something
worth reading there.  Plain 'Error' is worthless, you *still* need to
read the primary text to get a clue.  If it's empty you can skip the
extra step.

If an application specifically is setting the title to "" and the WM
decides to display "Untitled Window" instead, which one should be fixed,
really?


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Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com>