Summary: | How filenames are represented | ||
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Product: | [Unmaintained] HIG | Reporter: | Frans Englich <frans.englich> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Celeste Lyn Paul <celeste> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | celeste, fabian, kde-2011.08 |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Frans Englich
2004-09-10 00:14:14 UTC
When a document has an actual title, such as "Foo: The Guide to Bar", should the title or the filename be displayed? The purpose is to identify the document, and the title does that just as well, if not even better, perhaps. If there's no title, the filename could be used as fallback. Should the guidelines actively promote the use of title? ("If the document have a title, use it instead of the filename") This was discussed on the GNOME usability list: http://lists.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-September/msg00034.html Okular 0.6.1 shows only the title of PDF files (info within the file header), not the filename. For me that's very confusing. Most of the PDF files you'll find in the web are not correctly labeled. If you open them into okular and if you often switch between these windows you get crazy, because you cannot identify them by the window caption. You only see captions like "thesis.dvi" (even if the filename is called "glossary.pdf"), "Title", ... The problem is, that you cannot change the title of a PDF file without hacking the file. I wouldn't say anything against it if you would be easily able to change it (as you can change filenames). I agree that if a document has a title then the document title should be displayed. If there is no title then the filename (not the full path) should be displayed. However, my opinion is based upon a perfect world in which every document has a meaningful title. As this is _not_ the case, there should be an override option where the user can select whether his preference is for the document title or the filename to be shown. |