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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Captions in KDE
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-10-28 20:48:13
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 28 October 2000 08:07, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > > On Saturday 28 October 2000 10:14, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> > >
> > > [cut excellent plead that I 99% agree with]
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > And the classic counter-example would be KNode. Would we call it Node?
> > > News Reader (*shudder*)?
> > >
> > > So, this seems to bring up a different, more complex perspective IMHO.
> > >
> > > And to confuse things even more, Konsole has another KNode-like name,
> > > IMO, yet the question "what's Konsole? It's spelled wrong!" came much too
> > > often from my experimental pets (sorry, my lab mates :-).
> >
> > My konsole never says konole. If you start it from kicker, it says
> > "Terminal-Terminal"
> >
> > But the solution is simple. Nobody runs a stock konsole. Konsole either
> > serves as a Shell (That's the default), or depending on the session as
> > "Linux Shell", "Midnight Commander" or "Root Console". All perfect and
> > sufficient captions. Instead of "Shell", I would even say "Unix" (KDE1
> > once did that before beta1, but people almost killed me for that ;-)
> 
> The standard framework provides the application name. The application should
> provide a sensible caption to describe the window. "Terminal" is not a
> sensible caption, neither is "KDE Mail Client". I have no idea why we use the
> name from the *.desktop files to set as caption. It must have been a left
> over from KDE 1.0 or something.
> 
The idea was to allow custom captions

Greetings, Stephan

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