On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 18:26:38 PM +0200, Mathias Bauer
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> > 2) What is the point of the title property if it isn't displayed?
>
> You can use it in different places. And IMHO the title indeed is
> superfluous on most operating systems because you can use long file
> names. The title property goes back to ancient times where filenames
> had to be 8+3, it's a legacy.
I have read this message by mistake. I deleted all previous messages
of this thread without reading because I have no opinion or strong
wish in one way or another about where titles should be displayed.
So, maybe this has already said, but the statement that titles todays
are superfluous because you can just embed them in long filenames and
display those is wrong.
In large companies there are huge quantities of internal docs whose
file name have been longer than 8.3 for years but, by company policy,
must be the human-unreadable part number of the product they refer
to. Sometimes preceeded by the equally unreadable acronym of the
long-gone department who developed them.
Changing the CMS system where all this stuff is archived and searched
according to those filenames would cost a lot, so nobody does it. So
it may be as ugly as hell, but is not going to go away soon.
So, unless you were the one who *personally* wrote file
145751-102_719-FCFP-504_Uen.doc in 1989, it's handy to have and see
somewhere the string "Test Specification for energy efficient washer"
Ciao,
Marco F.
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