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[Benjamin Humphrey <humphreybc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Luke, I believe the idea is to have the menu, window controls and title
actually in the top panel itself, not in windows.

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 27 April 2010 17:24, Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What about windows with long titles? Web browsers ofter put the title of
> the
> > page you're viewing in the window title, so it's HUGE. Not much extra
> room,
> > if any, in that case.
> > Maybe a cut-off title with ... and the full thing in a tooltip?
> > Maybe just not merging the menus into the panel if it's too big.
> > Conceptually spill-over into the application window.
> > Alternatively, is there another place the page title, or other
> information
> > revealed via the window title should end up?
> > --
> > Jeremy Nickurak -= Email/XMPP: jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx =-
> >
>
> The most obvious way to handle this is to limit outrageously long
> title text, (in the way you suggested with ... and a tooltip) but do
> nothing if the window gets too small. For example, resize any window
> so that it doesn't fit the menu items - the menu items just get
> clipped. I've attached a hacky mockup of what I think, a.) is what
> everyone is talking about and b.) is bloody awesome :)
>
> Luke.
>
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