Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Matthew Thomas wrote:
>...
> > It's a bug. A window's title bar (on Mac OS, at least) should either
> > show the name of the current document, or (if there is no document)
> > the name of the application. Not both.
>
> I have no idea, how or why you come to that belief,
Pretty simple, really: that's how every Mac app (that I've ever seen)
behaves, with the single annoying exception of Mozilla.
> but I completely
> disagree. The application name *must* be in all main windows' titles.
> The Windows Explorer showing only "mozilla" (when I am in
> f:\build\mozilla\") is, um, misleading at best. How, otherwise, am I
> supposed to know (quickly), which application I am using?
You aren't. That's the whole idea. Just as when you're hammering some
nails, you don't need to know (quickly) what brand of hammer or brand of
nail you're using. It's completely irrelevant to the task.
If you really need to, you can always expand the application switcher in
the menu bar to show the application name -- whereupon the duplicate
`Mozilla' in each window's title bar stops looking merely silly, and
starts looking downright stupid.
> And no, the icon doesn't count. It is too small to be useful
> (especially, if you are on a high-res screen) and often also not clear
> enough (a user knows what Microsoft Word is, but can't necessarily
> tell which icon belongs to it).
Again, the icon should represent the document, not the application --
especially since you should be able to drag the icon to a Finder window
or to the Desktop to save the message as an individual file.
> > And certainly not the name of the folder (whether it be a filesystem
> > folder or a mail folder) which the document happens to be sitting
> > in.
>
> I have the message pane disabled. The folder *is* the "document"
> shown.
>...
Right, so in that case the title should become the name of the folder,
and the icon should become the icon for the folder. Just like in the
Finder or in Windows Explorer.
--
Matthew `mpt' Thomas, Mozilla UI Design component default assignee thing
<http://mozilla.org/>
