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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Error in StyleGuide
From:       Peter Putzer <pputzer () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       2000-06-21 23:40:11
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Peter Putzer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > how do I report an error in the style guide?
> 
> By sending in a bugreport to submit@bugs.kde.org or, if it is beyond a simple 
> typo, sending it to this list.
> 
> > it says
> >
> > <QUOTE>
> >
> > The application window should be labelled with the application name and
> > the name of the document in the window, separated by a hyphen. For
> > example, "KScape - www.kde.org", "KFM - /usr/src", or "KEdit -
> > (untitled)".
> > </QUOTE>
> >
> > while obviously it should be the other way round:
> >
> > <document> - <application>
> >
> > (at least if the current KApplication is correct ;)
> 
> That's an interesting issue. The reason for putting the document in front is 
> that when the title is shown truncated in the taskbar at least the document 
> name is shown. Unfortunately this makes little sense if the "document" is a 
> URL because then every document basically shows up in the taskbar as 
> "file:/home/..." anyway.
> 
> Now, if we would use the form "<application> - <document>" and the taskbar 
> would show the _LAST_ part of the title instead of the first part, we would 
> get the document name visible in the taskbar which seems to be the most 
> relevant information. Especially since the "application" part is already 
> communicated to the user by the icon.

Yeah, I know why it's <application> - <document>, though you're right, the
URL is truncated almost always.

But the other way round is still worse, so...

:-)

> 
> > Another issue with the styleguide:
> > why "OK" for simple dialogs/message boxes? Shouldn't it be
> > "Close" instead, since a warning generally is not "OK"... I thought that
> > was the general concensus some time ago... *wonders*
> 
> Maybe the style guide didn't want to differ too much from established 
> practices at the time. Today it would be really easy to change because we now 
> just have to change kmessagebox.

It has been changed.

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