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

[Jorn Baayen <jorn openedhand com>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 21:46 -0800, Peter Johanson wrote:
> 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."

Ok, let's remove that part then.

What would the title be on an empty playlist ?

> 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>"?

The WM will already truncate for us if the title is too long, so this
would be unnecessary. 



Thanks,

Jorn



> 
> -pete
> 
> 
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