Re: [Muine] [UI CHANGES 4/6] Window title name (ML post from Iain with patch)

[Peter Johanson <latexer gentoo org>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Jorn Baayen wrote:
> The risk here is that the window title becomes disproportionally long.
> Think of classical music where the title usually already is pretty long,
> and then you get a slew of composer-performer information ..
> 
> I'd vote to leave the title as is, or to make it purely "<songname>".
> 
> What does the HIG recommend ?


Muine seems to fit with the HIGs sense of a "document based
application", and there's a few recommendations there:

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/windows-primary.html#primary-window-titles

In particular, "Use Filename as the window title for document-based
applications." (in this case, we use filename as a backup where metadata
isn't found). Since we have more than just filename available to us,
whether we did just the song, or song and artists, etc., seems to be at
our disgression/not specified.

Concerning including the "- Muine", part, they suggest in a warning that
"Including the application name in the title of a document-based
application is not recommended."

Your point about the 'lots and lots of artists' is a valid concern,
maybe we could include at most 15 or 20, etc characters of the generated
artist list text, and make it just "<song> by <ellipsised artists text>"?

-pete


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Peter Johanson
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