I just fired up my copy of SI3D and can confirm. The viewport title bar shows the shading mode that will be activated when clicked, not the current shade mode.
SI3D had a lot of those quirks. Matt Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:32:11 +0200 From: “Sven Constable” <sixsi_l...@imagefront.de> Subject: RE: Friday Flashback #384 To: "'Official Softimage Users Mailing List. IIRC it was always that way in SI3D and in a few versions of XSI too. Indicating which view mode was used before the current mode, so when you middle click to switch it will revert to that view mode. Actually quite handy. Sven ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to softimage-requ...@listproc.autodesk.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.