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[matt <m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Potentially then the title bar could show the document title, but not
the application title? I would think that a casual glance would inform
the user of which application they are looking at. Surely this makes
having the name of the application unnecessary?

On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 03:39 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On 29 August 2011 03:06, Stefanos A. <stapostol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is Firefox's problem, not ours. The same information is available on
> > the address bar and the tab text - i.e. Firefox *triplicates* this
> > information. I don't think Unity should focus on the design issues of
> > 3rd-party apps (because if it did, things like the global-menu wouldn't even
> > be an option).
> 
> No, the full webpage title is only available if you mouse over the
> tab. There is not enough space on the tab to show full webpage titles
> on many websites.
> 
> Ubuntu absolutely should care about apps like Firefox, Epiphany,
> Chromium, LibreOffice, eog, totem, and many others which use the
> window title to present important information. Sorry, but you can't
> just suddenly declare window titles obsolete as a lot of apps use
> them.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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