[Development] App name in window title

David Faure faure at kde.org
Thu Jun 21 22:23:30 CEST 2012


On Thursday 21 June 2012 22:05:24 Mark wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:55 PM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 21 June 2012 21:27:32 Иван Комиссаров wrote:
> >> Modal dialogs on Mac doesn't show any title at all.
> > 
> > OK, thanks for this information.
> > However what about non-modal windows on Mac?
> > Dialogs were just an example, really, the same applies to all toplevel
> > windows in KDE4.
> > 
> >> So this will be platform-dependent (kde only?) feature:)
> > 
> > Depends what happens on Windows, really.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> for windows the following applies:
> - Normal windows don't have a title at all since Windows Vista.

Are you sure? Isn't that only the explorer and other core apps that don't?
http://www.paulscomputerservice.net/articles/images/Vista_Computer_Management.jpg

Same in Windows 7:
http://screenshots.en.sftcdn.net/blog/en/2008/10/windows-7-screenshot.png

> - (error) dialogs do have a title with the application name in it.

In the case of Qt programs, does Qt add the application name, or Windows 
itself ... or is it missing? If Qt, which string does it pick up exactly?

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