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This seems to have worked at one time, but currently does not. The page title is set to the question when VBO calls confirm_form(), but then Views itself clobbers it with the View title.

Here's a workaround where we change the title of the View so that Views just clobbers the desired title with the desired title again.

So my patch only works if you reload the page that the confirmation form is on. The *first* time that page loads, it still shows the View's title. I have no freakin' clue what's going on there; tracing through the code, I can't see where the title is getting reset between where I set it and where the title is retrieved again.

I also tried

  $view->display_handler->set_option('title', $title);

…but it's the same result.

This is a very strange bug.

I've checked out tags throughout the 7.x-3.x branches of both VBO and Views, and couldn't find a spot where this wasn't happening. Apparently this is a pretty long-running problem… Is there some other issue I couldn't find which has a lot more comments in it, or do people really not care that much about it?

In my case, the client needs it, so… I'm back at it.

I don't think anyone pays attention, this is the first time I've seen an issue about it.
That said, I'm pretty sure it worked when I first wrote it (back in 2011).
But the title / breadcrumb handling of views / core fluctuated multiple times since then.

Well, that's surprising.

It looks like any changes we try to make to the View in the form callback function don't "stick;" I guess because they're operating on copies of the View. Though why they'll then work just fine if you reload the confirmation form page… iz mystry. I got similar results why trying to set the title in theme_views_bulk_operations_confirmation(). I was hoping to avoid just implementing hook_preprocess_views_view(), but that seemed to be the only way I could find to get it working… =/

Committed, thanks.

This change has broken all my views titles.

I get either no title at all (for new views) or "<" = "&lgt" for existing views.

@marcusx: Since this patch has been committed I created a new issue #2312547: Broken view titles, they often only display a < character and will set the status of this one back to fixed.