What is the current correct behaviour for window titles? I'm working in something right now that manipulates documents; I could do: blah.xml blah.xml - Program Chapter Title Chapter Title - Program When I researched the HIG on this (some years ago, admittedly), the advice boiled down to what I wrote in our API documentation for Window's setTitle(), http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/api/org/gnome/gtk/Window.html#setTitle(java.lang.String) However, Judging by this screenshot I took of the window selector applet's popup list, we're all over the map at the moment (which is to say people are still doing their own thing, and whatever GNOME's policy is, it's not being enforced very well), http://research.operationaldynamics.com/files/andrew/WindowTitles_Screenshot.png It's also obvious that we're still getting dealing with the hangover from when someone thought it would be cool to have programs called "Web Browser" instead of Epiphany, etc — so we see some programs calling themselves "Sound Reorder", some saying a document title / email subject (only), some saying "path/to/filename.ext - Application", "Inbox (1849 total) - Evolution", and permutations thereon. I must admit I'm worryingly tempted to do "Document Title - Application". But I also know there was once a push to have only the shorter form along with the icons to identify application. But given the kill-the-icons meme that's suddenly turned up around here, it no longer seems a good idea to be de-emphasizing one's application's name. So anyone care to put a stake in the ground about what is correct? [be that "now" or in the "post 3.0 world", but in either case feel free to speculate about what we're going to do to make the Entire Desktop Experience actually consistent in this regard, because if we don't, then what's the point of having a policy?] Cheers, AfC Sydney -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics is an operations and engineering consultancy focusing on IT strategy, organizational architecture, systems review, and effective procedures for change management: enabling successful deployment of mission critical information technology in enterprises, worldwide. http://www.operationaldynamics.com/
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