sorry peter, I withdrew that message, it was meant for the OG developer. I guess I wasn't fast enough.
On Aug 30, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Peter Hosey wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2008, at 14:30:52, jeeves.d wrote: >> in light of the apparent opposition to letting the application set >> the "lifetime" >> I don't understand why Growl has an "application decides" option in >> the "notification editor" > > The default, if neither the application nor the user says whether the > notification is sticky, is that it isn't sticky. > > If the application says it's sticky, and the user leaves it set to > “Application Decides”, then it's sticky, because the application said > so. > > If the user sets it to “yes” or “no”, then it doesn't matter what the > application says, if anything: the user's order takes precedence. > >> but, maybe you could simplify your code by not using that option, >> having the user set the options in the "notification editor" instead, > > For every notification? No. Nobody wants to configure every > notification from every application; that's what default values are > for. > > The default is non-sticky, which works fine most of the time. If the > user wants to change this, they can. > >> and always sending a GROWL_NOTIFICATION_IDENTIFIER ? > > What? That has nothing to do with stickiness; it's for coalescing. > Moreover, the user doesn't send the identifier; the application does. > It's not up to us whether there's an identifier or not. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
