Feature Requests item #929354, was opened at 2004-04-04 16:10 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by lschiere You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=929354&group_id=235
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None >Status: Closed Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Shish (shish) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Window titles Initial Comment: All the dialog windows are titled "Gaim", and some of the regular windows are "gaim.exe" - not very informative :/ If someone points me to the "how to set a window's title in GTK" tutorial (or just plain tells me), I'd be willing to hunt through for untitled windows and send in a patch :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere) Date: 2007-04-20 10:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=28833 Originator: NO As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Casey Ho (klugegod) Date: 2004-05-30 00:16 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=781624 I was just reading the HIG, and if I understand it right- all windows except alerts and toolbars should have titles, and alerts are things that the user does not expect to see. Maybe part of the problem is that some windows that may not be considered alerts and toolbars don't have titles, and those are the ones that Windows users notice. In particular, I first noticed the "gaim.exe" labelling when looking up the buddy info of some friends. Because I explicitly asked for the information window to pop up, can it be considered an alert? In the words of the HIG, alerts are "not directly requested by the user". On the other hand, people may expect a label for the "Buddy Info" window because the original AIM does it that way. In that case, perhaps consider giving a small subset of the unnamed windows actual titles? Also, I couldn't find anything in the HIG comparing NULL to empty string titles. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Mark Doliner (thekingant) Date: 2004-05-29 23:42 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=20979 Well I don't think the patch is a good idea... I don't think Gaim should be explicitly titling windows as "Gaim," and I definitely don't think #ifdef'ing all over the place is a good idea. One thing to try... there is a difference between setting a NULL title and setting a title of the empty string. I seem to remember one of them being preferred over the other, but I don't remember which. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Casey Ho (klugegod) Date: 2004-05-29 00:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=781624 This issue (at least similar to it) has been beaten around in http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=235&atid=350235&func=detail&aid=838927. In short, the reasoning behind having no window title is that it conforms better to the Gnome HIG- windows that are meant to be open for short periods of time should not be named. The windowmanager substitutes in the name of the executable (in this case gaim.exe). I have written a patch that would fix the issue by naming all "unnamed" windows "Gaim", which will override the default of Gaim.exe. It's a one line thing- check if the dialog has a NULL title argument, and if so, substitute in "Gaim". kingant, any thoughts on this? If there is concern that this will interfere with the HIG, I propose that this be made a windows-only fix with an #ifdef statement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=350235&aid=929354&group_id=235 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Gaim-features mailing list Gaim-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-features
