´The window of editor window >> Bildbearbeitung - Album "name of Album" - digiKam<< This headline is more or less useless. - Everybody knows, that the program "digiKam" has been startet. Within this prog. die title "digiKam" is neither helpful nor specific. My suggestion: >>path, Album, pic name<< Where >>path, Album<< should be an optional setting, >>pic name<< always present Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. see above 3. see above Actual Results: it is not a feature, it is an build in failure Expected Results: name all windows: - context sensitive - specific - as much as necessary, as less as possible ergonomic details make software advantageous and preferable or a source of misfit and anger
Are you a software interface ergonomy specialist ? The application title follow all rules used by all graphical software application. Application name must appear in window title. Look application titles from Chrome, Firefox, VLC, Libreoffice. All apply the same rules... Gilles Caulier
Gilles. I need to smile about your question "software interface ergonomy specialist ?" Of course I am not (others too, seemingly). However, I know the German website <http://www.ergo-online.de/site.aspx?url=html/software/titel.htm> since years. As much as I know, they are a federal (governmental) office. They describe in the chapters: ... Software Grundlagen der Software-Ergonomie // The Basics of SW Ergonomics Ergonomische Dialoggestaltung // Ergonomical Design of Dialogs Ergonomische Maskengestaltung // Ergonomical Design of Masks Einstellungsmöglichkeiten in SAP®-Systemen: Ergonomische Stellschrauben // Ergonomical seetings with SAP®-Systems Ergonomische Gestaltung von WWW-Seiten // Ergonomical Design of Web-Pages Software-Entwicklung & Prototyping // Software-Development and Prototyping Verfahren zur Beurteilung der Software-Ergonomie // Procedures to Measure SW-Ergonomics ... Arbeitsorganisation und Just some small extraits- if you needed more? There are always people to know s.th. better than on thought before. Sometime it helps to see things as one never had seen these before to deduce new ways. Hope you will understand and take profit from some of my ideas. Axel
KDE has already a HIG team to guide developers about common GUI design : https://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG Gilles Caulier
Thanks, Gilles. I came across this topic, as I often work in image editor and more than once asked myself what pic I am working on.... if there was a pics name in the header, this never would have been an issue to think about... Best, Axel
Axel, digiKam always show the image name in bottom left corner. And the reason it shows digiKam - digiKam or Light Table - digiKam is because this info is used by Alt-Tab and other mouse gestures which show all windows on desktop and of course you need to know what program is in that window. The changes are not hard to be done, but you must convince the whole KDE to do the same.