Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le dimanche 05 juin 2005 � 12:59 +0200, Mathias Bauer a �crit : > >> > The truth is humans suck at entering nice title metadata where software >> > can find it (and metadata includes filenames) >> >> I don't doubt that, but obviously the file name (or the title) the user >> has chosen was good enough for him, showing something else in the >> caption bar is like treating him like a child. >> >> Your suggestion could be a good one for the creation of a file name or a >> title as a *proposal* when the user is going to enter it. > > Not good - too many documents are created by copying others and > replacing their contents. Which is why metadata when it exists is almost > always false (just what the software autofiled during the creation of > the root doc)
As I wrote: it *could* be a good idea, I just didn't think it to the end. My personal choice is not using any automagic things, but I read your mail as a suggestion to add one. It was not me that asked for automatic selection of content for the display in the caption bar (what IMHO is even worse than an automatic proposal for a title or file name). Sorry if I misunderstood you. > If you want to keep is simple - just use the filename. > If you want it to be accurate - metadata is as insufficient as the > filename (and often worse - at least the filename must be kept unique in > a single dir) I also prefer the file name, though a file name (without the complete path) admittedly is also not unique, but I just learned from Marco and Shoshannah that there might be valid reasons to allow the user to work with titles instead of file names and I wanted to take this into consideration. To conclude: the file name is the identifier for a document. It is taken to chose the file and it is the name you usually should see in the caption bar. If due to restrictions (whatever they are) the file name is not good enough for the caption bar (and so can't sufficiently express the real nature of the document) a "title" metadata might be appropriate as a replacement in the caption bar. Wether the caption bar should display the one or the other depends on the documents and in rare cases (where always only one kind of documents is edited) from the environment. This can be supported well by a document specific setting with a selectable default. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
