[ dunno where my email'd reply went ] On 6/4/2009 10:00 PM, Michael Herger wrote:
> A number of times? It shouldn't. Once every 24h is enough. Yup. I believe the CP will appear, and if it is not acted upon, will come forward again later. This foregrounding occurred 3 or 4 times, each time I just ignored it and continued work. I did this because I was expecting to see a more obvious sign that there was an update available. > Yeah, I'm not happy with this rather intrusive notification. I'll soon be > working on it again. The plan is to have a "don't ask again" option. So at > least you shouldn't see it pop up every now and then. OK, sounds good. >> Could the Mac OS version of the control panel use Growl instead for >> notifications? This would be much more elegant I think. > > We did investigate this route. But we can't rely on it being installed. > Plus the glue code to perl is rather limited in its functionality. Eg. > there's no way to tell it to open the prefpane if the user clicks the > notification. Therefore it would have to be a "Hey, new software > available. Please go to the prefpane blahblah...". But I'll see whether it > could be used optionally, if it's installed on the computer. Understood. I was also thinking if ($growl_exists) use it; else CP nag. It is also possible that a short notification might go unnoticed. >> The information tab is blank when the server is not started. Would it >> be possible to have some basic information (SC version, etc.) available >> if the server is not running? > > Information right now relies completely on SC's web UI. It's the same page > as displayed in the Settings/Information web page. If at all possible, *something* should be presented (minimally, a "Start Me for more info" note). It seems counter-intuitive and contrary to typical app behavior to have an empty About or Info box unless the service is started. >> If you start the server, the click the Information tab, it is blank as >> noted above. But it stays blank until you switch to another tab and >> back. Can the tabs contents be updated while the tab is selected? > > Might be worth a try. Would you mind filing a bug against this? I tend to > forget the good ideas... Thanks again! Done: 'Bug 12286' (http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12286) Thanks, Mike -- MrC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=468 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=62441 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
