Re: [AD] Tiny Grabber patch

[Martijn Versteegh <m.versteegh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 12:43:48PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
>On 12 Oct 2001, Owen Rudge <owen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Umm, why not just call it ``grabber''?
>> 
>> Well, for us Windows users, "grabber" in a window title is just plain ugly.
>> :-) Also, Allegro Datafile Editor is what's used in the About box of the
>> grabber, etc, so that's what I used there.
>
>But the name of the program is "grabber" (or "Grabber", if you like)
>and "Allegro Datafile Editor" is a description.  Does Netscape
>Navigator have "Netscape Corp. Web Browser" in it's titlebar?  Does
>Quake have "id Software First Person Shooter"?

Hein Zelle & me agree with these arguments. And more important:
"Allegro Datafile Editor" is too long to fit in the taskbar buttons, so you'll
get "Allegro..." in the button, which is IRRC exactly what you get if you don't set
the title at all... (I'm not completely sure here ;-)

Grabber OTOH fits nicely ;-)

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Martijn Versteegh