RE: HIG Dialog widget proposal

[<martyn 2 russell bt com>]

> > I thought the HIG says to use an empty title for a dialog/alert?
> 
> It says so but it the authors have probably been on some bad crack
> when they wrote that. I agree that the default window manager
> behaviour should be not to list a message dialog in the taskbar and it
> should also suppress the title. But if your window manager doesn't
> implement this behaviour, not setting a window title let's you end up
> with a dialog labelled "Untitled Window" and I don't think that's
> desirable.
> 

I agree, I sometimes think that perhaps a generic title would be more appropriate, for example, "Alert" or may be something related to the message, like "Information" or "Error", etc.

Regards,
Martyn