GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 675414
Get rid of brackets around filename in title bar
Last modified: 2012-07-17 21:09:06 UTC
Created attachment 213415 [details] Which of the entries in this list is minimized? There is no way that I can find to get GIMP to stop adding [square brackets] around the "%f" filename shortcut, when displayed in the window title bar. Depending on your window manager or desktop environment (XFCE for example), minimized window titles are already drawn with a set of brackets, meaning that all GIMP image windows will have two sets of brackets when minimized. This makes things confusing when looking through a long window list to find wayward, minimized image windows - you can't just quickly glance through the list, because some entries will look like they're minimized when they aren't, and the mind will tend to skip over the extra brackets in this situation. Suggestion: Get rid of all hard-coded brackets, braces, parenthesis, etc. in the titlebar and status bar text. The user can very easily add them or select a preset that contains them if they're wanted.
see Bug 676566
By that logic, the use of [] in window titley would be generally forbidden. Window managers should simply not indicate window state by using characters that can be part of a normal window title too. (And yes I suffer from the same problem, but it's not GIMP's job to fix that, the window managers need some other indication).