[Adium-devl] Yet another nitpicking UI discussion

[disposable at infinitenexus.com]

The reason for the WINDOW_TITLE : CONTEXT makes sense to us but will  
it really make sense to the general user?  Typically a menu item's  
text should reflect the window's title, not be another variant so  
that the text of the action links to the window it controls.

Bob the basic user walks up to Adium, open Preferences, goes to  
Account, and then leaves. He comes back to a messy Mac and uses the  
Window menu to find the Account window, only there's no window listed  
there called Account, but there's one called Preferences : Account.  
"I think this would be it, it sounds like what I had open... or maybe  
I should quit and start over." Perhaps a bit extreme, but hopefully  
illustrative :)

On Apr 25, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Apr 24, 2006, at 20:45:33, disposable at infinitenexus.com wrote:
>> Is there any reason we need to have Preferences : in front of the  
>> title of each pane when loaded in the Preferences window?
>
> For that matter, what about the "Messages:" prefix on chat windows?
>
> We can use an alternate title to give both windows more descriptive  
> entries in the Window menu, and set the main title of each window  
> to just the pane/tab that's visible.
> 	• For example, if I'm chatting with Colin, the title bar of the  
> window should say "ramoth4", whereas the entry in the Window menu  
> could say "Messages: ramoth4" (or perhaps "Chat: ramoth4").
> 	• Likewise, the Preferences window's title bar would say, for  
> example, "General", whereas the Window menu would say "Preferences:  
> General".
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