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From: james@ENGRSS2.UNL.EDU (James Nau)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: easy suggestion for EZ
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Date: 30 Jan 91 22:50:53 GMT
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Just to add more confustion, how about adding options to the
proposed *.ShortIconNames so that it could take values:

yes:  always strip off path
no:   never strip off path (or add ~ maybe?)
user: always try to append ~user/ if it's in some users directory
      or ~/ for user's home directory
      (for you, it'd be likely ~source/...)


> What I'd like to see is some preference/Xdefault like:
> 
> *.IconShortTitles: on
> *.TitleBarShortTitles: on
> 
> to apply to any app that might wish to display a filename inside an
> icon or a title bar respectively. :)
> 
> I would think that this wouldn't be too difficult to implement and
> would make ATK even more configurable.
> 
> 
> -Kris Olander

When my window manager (motif on AIX 3.1) iconifies, it always is a
rectangle of the same size, and the icon title is truncated on the
right.  When I move my cursor into the icon, then the title expands
to whatever size it needs.  I assume that twm does not do this (It's
been tooo long since I've used twm)?

I do like the idea of having the icon title separate from the titlebar
text (loosely coupled, I guess).

James Nau
james@engrs.unl.edu