[RFC] WindowMetadata framework fundamentals

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:41:54 PM CEST Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > - currently open document
> >
> > Don't most applications expose that in their window title, anyway?
> 
> Some do, some don't. Some put it at the start of their title, some at the
> end.  Some add some character that the data is changed, some don't. Some
> put the file name in brackets, some the complete path. Some have a config
> option to control that.
> 
> What comes out of it is that the outside applications have no way to gather 
> what the data is.

That struck me as well. The title field is actually just an example (probably 
a useful one), but of course we can expose more useful information, such as 
the path to the currently opened document, through this mechanism.

What information would be useful here?

- Title
- Status
- Document
- ... ?

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