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Make use of `title` for `Thing` subclasses

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by locating how Thing computes its title and check whether subclass or instance overrides already exist. Review any related documentation, then define the supported configuration scope and verify that titles are exposed as intended for the UI.

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Description

At the moment, the title of a Thing is just the name of the class. This might be a reasonable default, but it's not particularly human-readable. It would be very nice to make it possible to set the title per-class, or even per-instance, because that would be useful for, for example, the UI.

This may already be possible, but I've not checked or documented it.

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Python
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