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<p>Yes. The idea of first removing vowels, etc comes (I believe)
from Squeak's old days. I think it is useful for (for instance)
Browser buttons. Open a Browser, make it smaller, and see what
happens. The "cat porridge" is perhaps still useful.</p>
<p>But may be it should not be used for window title. Opinions?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2025-12-06 2:51 AM, Luciano
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<div dir="auto">I think you mentioned this annoyance before. It
seems that what we are doing is actually atypical. Most GUIs
seem to handle this by 1) just clipping/truncating the title, or
2) replacing part of the text with ellipsis (…), either at the
start, middle (common for paths), or end. Also, they use
tooltip/hover text to show the full title, just as you suggested
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<p><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">On the debugger
window title, add a balloon text when the mouse is
hovering it to present to the user, in a meaningful
way, the complete error message.</font></p>
<p><font size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Now</font><font
size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, most of the time,</font><font
size="4" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> the error message
looks like cat porridge.</font></p>
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