[gopher] Proposal for a gopher++ TITLE resource

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Conforming clients will use the first info resource with the word 
> "TITLE" in the selector as the title of the menu. All following TITLE 
> resources should be ignored.
[...]
> If a non-conforming client receives a TITLE resouce, it will simply 
> render it as informational text. As the TITLE should be on the first 
> line of any menu it will look like a title to the user even if the 
> client doesn't specifically render it as such.

I think this is fine, except that I don't think there should be any
restriction about where the TITLE resource should occur. It may make
more sense for it to occur lower down on the menu:

1> Back to the previous menu

   This is the title. << TITLE resource

   This is the text.

2> Some more menu options.
3> Some more menu options.

Myself, I would probably simply have the client *both* print it as an
info text line (for consistent output), and then do whatever it wants to
do with it internally (put it in the window title bar, etc.). I haven't
looked at your code yet to see if this is already what you're doing, so
maybe you already are :)

Seems like this kind of interface could be extended to other kinds of
metadata, too.

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