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[Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ryan,

On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 11:22 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
> While browsers might not be focused on branding, that branding is
> still 
> there. My point, however, isn't the branding, but the fact that there
> is 
> a brand. If we treated every web browser as "web browser" or every
> email 
> client as "email client", how would people tell the difference
> between 
> them? Branding, with different icons and application names, helps
> this 
> issue, and there's a healthy level of branding exposure we need to
> find. 
> If the window borders didn't have the application title, the
> Application 
> Menu, with the icon as well as the name (so people can more easily 
> recognize the name), fixes this problem because you can tell what 
> application you have open no matter what window is focused, its 
> contents, or what the window title is. 

the branding falls back down to the operating system. It's Ubuntu's
access to facebook etc. not Chrome or Firefox.

Martin.