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Subject:    Konqueror's window title becomes uninformative when several windows
From:       Christoph Wiesen <chris () deadhand ! com>
Date:       2004-07-25 10:35:20
Message-ID: 200407251235.20783.chris () deadhand ! com
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There's one usability issue that always bothers me once I decide to clean up 
my harddisks again - I can't easily see what's the contents of a Konqueror 
(file-management) window with just a glance at it's Kicker bar if I have 
several windows open.

Right now I have 17 windows open - which shouldn't be all that uncommon. 
there's instant messaging (one main window, one chat), an ftp site,  news 
agreagator, websites and several filebrowser windows... if you look at many 
user's desktops thats not very unusual - though I wouldn't doubt many will 
say theirs is much cleaner...

Anyway i can't differentiate between all the open Konqueror instances just by 
looking at Kicker. All of the 7 or so window-titles either start with 
"file:/mn" or "file:/ho" - so I'm browsign some directories below  ~/ and 
some below /mnt/.
There are far deeper hierarchies below that and to see what a window really is 
about i have to either open it and have a look or hover the mouse over kicker 
for a tooltip. Very time consuming.

This is on a display that's 1280 wide and with point 8 non-anti-aliased fonts.

I have filed a bug report here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85925

Maybe some agree with me on this and support the bug.

if there already _is_ a solution to my problem I'd naturally like to hear 
about it.. I couldn't find anything this far.

Greetings,
Chris
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