On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Ilya Sherman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Martin S Taylor < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On 15 Mar, 21:35, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > I had thought that these were straight forward. We do need to change >>> the >>> > text in the menu item, it seems we missed that part, but everything >>> else to >>> > me is pretty much what it says. Can you tell us where you are confused? >>> > >>> > Chris >>> >>> Well which takes priority? If in the Growl Preference>Notifications >>> pane, I adjust "Stay On >>> Screen" to Never, but in the menu bar have Sticky Notifications >>> ticked, what happens? Is it sticky or not? >>> >> >> The menu bar is meant to be a convenience to allow for folks to set things >> to sticky when they walk away from their computer, or if they need that or >> things like that. I believe it takes precedence over any other setting. That >> said, I think we could probably remove it for the inactivity checkbox. >> > > I know that if you adjust "Stay On Screen" to Never and also tick the > "Leave notification on screen after n seconds of inactivity" checkbox, the > notification does not stay on screen. > I've never used the preference, I honestly dislike the whole idea, so I've never tested this out. > This is useful if you want, e.g. chat notifications to stay on the screen > when you walk away from the computer, but not song played notifications. > A log you could replay notifications through would make all of this moot anyhow. > In general, it seems to me to make the most sense to always have the user's > explicit preference for a specific notification take precedence over more > general preferences. > > Show me some apple docs to back this up and I'll agree. However, I then don't see how to relay that through the UI without *needing* documentation, which then makes it a bad UI. > And if I *don't* tick the checkbox "Leave notification on screen after >>> n seconds of inactivity" does it then go away automatically after n >>> seconds of inactivity? >> >> >> Yes.. I don't get how this is unclear. >> > > Unless the sending application makes it sticky? I think part of the > confusion is that both Growl and the sending application can cause a > notification to be sticky. > No sticky notification ever goes unsticky because of an application, period. So again, based on what that preference says, how can you say anything about notifications going away? It says that they are going to stay on screen after there is no activity on the machine for a certain amount of time, it doesn't say anything about removing them. Nothing about that UI says anything about that. Let's keep this thread specifically to the questions Martin has. Make a new thread if you want to discuss changing things around (push cmd+n, don't reply) Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
