Hi list Another crackpot idea for you. A lot of applications name their windows in the form "Some Thing - Some Application". Some just name their windows in the form "Some Thing", relying on the icon to portray more information about the window.
I think the latter form is recommended by GNOME HIG, but I'm not so sure it's the best option when one particular object can have many windows. A recent example I brought up with Gossip (which has since been adjusted for) is that, given all this Telepathy stuff, we're likely to see many windows for the same person. In such a case, "John Smith - Conversation", "John Smith - File Sharing", "John Smith - Video Call" would be a lot better than "John Smith", "John Smith", "John Smith", even if they did all have different icons. So it seems, from my POV, that it's a good idea to portray an extra bit of information about a window, a "window subtitle" (in contrast to "window title"), so to speak. Like I said, many applications are already implicitly doing this just by using a - to separate the title from the subtitle. Perhaps it would be a good idea for Gtk to have support for setting "window subtitles", and for now it could simply communicate that with the WM as being "title - subtitle", but this gives us the flexibility to do more fancy things such as those illustrated by the (albeit rather old now) Tango window experiment mockups <http://tango.freedesktop.org/Window_Experiments>, and probably a few other things, too. Thoughts? Cheers -- Alex Jones http://alex.weej.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
