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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Barry Warsaw wrote:

> OTOH, I do occasionally look at the title and I want to see something 
> useful there.  A bug number, a project name, a person's name, a question 
> number.  That's really all I care about.  I don't generally care that 
> it's nice and human readable, and in fact, if the most important piece 
> of information (say the bug number) were the first thing in the title, I 
> think that would be /more/ useful to me.

YMMV but for us in Translations the reverse breadcrumbs have worked out 
really well, _after_ a concerted effort to make sure that (1) each 
breadcrumb mentions exactly one piece of context (either some kind of 
object name or a static generic page name, never both), and (2) there 
are enough breadcrumbs to leave a meaningful trail.  We did this as a 
separate, fast pass over the UI once everything was in place.

For the cases I've looked at, the essential first bit of the page title 
often reads more or less as hand-crafted prose--but without all the 
hard, inconsequential, and inconsistent choices about how to phrase them.

For instance, we have:

Change details : Catalan : Languages

"evolution" source package : Translations : 9.10 : Ubuntu

Remove translation team : German : Launchpad Translators : Translation 
groups

They're never perfect and the tails dangle, but the part I care about 
the most and get to see the most does everything it needs to.  Change 
details: Catalan (under Languages).  Evolution source package: 
Translations (in version 9.10 of Ubuntu).  Remove translation team: 
German (in Launchpad Translators, the translation group).

We may have been lucky in how neatly our UI maps onto a tree-like view. 
 I'd be curious to know if other teams run into very different 
situations where it doesn't work, or whether we're still just suffering 
from old titles that need updating.


Jeroen