[Cuis-dev] A note for ourself

[Juan Vuletich]

Ok. Just pushed a change to avoid the 'cat porridge' effect :D

On 2025-12-09 11:13 AM, Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> But may be it should not be used for window title. Opinions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On 2025-12-06 2:51 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
>> 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 (but not when the text fits, only when it was 
>> shortened).
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 6, 2025 at 05:44 Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev 
>> <cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:
>>
>>     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.
>>
>>     Now, most of the time, the error message looks like cat porridge.
>>
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