On Fri, 2007-16-02 at 20:16 +0000, Alex Jones wrote: > 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?
I really like the idea and I was always opposed to that HIG suggestion that window titles should only contain document information. -Gezim _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
