GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 336456
Window titles and string order
Last modified: 2006-04-03 09:08:00 UTC
The window titles currently look like this: "Chat - John Doe". It would be better to show "John Doe - Chat" or "John Doe (Chat)" or even just "John Doe". This makes the windows a lot easier to find in the gnome-panel window list. Note that Epiphany, Gedit and others show the "document" name at the start of the window title string. Epiphany doesn't even show the application name or purpose, just the current page's title (or URL). Let me know what you think. I can cook up a patch that changes all relevant strings, so you don't have to do it yourself :)
Sounds very good to me, I would be fine with having just the name. A patch would be appreciated :) I have noticed also that we have "Gossip - ..." in (almost?) all window titles. Shouldn't it be enough to use the gossip icon as default icon and then have just the actual title as title? Maybe the HIG says something about this.
Yea, you can blame me for this. I did it because it was more obvious which windows were Gossip windows when looking at the Window list. It does use valuable space though for small windows. Most of the changes should be quick and easy in glade.
I'll cook up a patch when I find the time...
Created attachment 62611 [details] [review] Patch to simplify window titles. Here's a simple patch that implements your suggestions.
Created attachment 62613 [details] [review] Correct patch for windows title Whoops, wrong patch. Here's the correct patch.
I think the space between the * and the name should be removed, otherwise the title will have a space before the name most of the time: I.e. + title = g_strdup_printf (("%s %s"), should be: + title = g_strdup_printf ("%s%s",
Richard, what about using a custom character like → (U+2192 RIGHTWARDS ARROW) or ★ (U+2606 WHITE STAR)? :)
Heh, nice :) I'm not sure it's a good idea though, since not everyone has a font that contains those symbols.
Committed, thanks Brian and Wouter.