[RFC] WindowMetadata framework fundamentals

[Martin Graesslin]

On Thursday, July 14, 2016 1:52:26 PM CEST Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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

- url
- mime/type 

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