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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/9/22 Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 2009/9/22 Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Deryck Hodge wrote:
>>>
>>>> Martin, Barry please feel free to clarify if I misrepresented you. :)
>>>
>>> I don't really have anything to add, but if "Questions you asked about
>>> Ubuntu Linux : Questions for Ubuntu Linux : Ubuntu" is a sensible page
>>> title, I'm an ewok.
>>
>> But that's something you can start from and improve on, and every
>> improvement you make is global. For example, it looks like we can
>> remove the information about the pillar, if we keep the rule that its
>> name must be mentioned in the label for the current view, and so on.
>>
>
> Yes, this can be improved, but should we have to devote so much
> developer time to something with so little real gain?  It feels to me
> like were working too hard for such a minor problem.
> ...
> Consistency, too, is a great goal but like someone said earlier a
> well-applied set of rules for writing page titles seems a much better
> use of time and resources then trying to get programmatic page titles.
>  I realize the idea of generated page titles seems like a nice
> engineering solution, but in practice, I think we'll spend several
> rounds "improving" when we could have just crafted decent titles and
> been done with it.

So basically what you're saying is that you predict that hand crafting
a title for each and every view in Launchpad will end up being less
work than a few more iterations on improving the generic page title
solution?