On Mar 16, 9:21 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 16, 2009, at 02:17:19, Martin S Taylor wrote: > > > If you keep it doing what it does at the moment, is it necessary? > > Why not just let the user change the option in the Preferences? It's > > not as if it's the sort of thing which needs to be changed quickly, > > on a whim. > > Agreed. > > > But if you do keep it doing the same thing, you must a) retitle it, > > and b) make it clear (somewhere) that it mirrors the option set in > > the Preferences. Possible a note to this effect in the Preferences > > that "This option can be set quickly in the menu". > > I agree with A, but not necessarily B. If we mirror the wording in the > preference pane, people can infer that these two controls with the > same name do the same thing.
I think people will only infer that if the wording is *exactly* the same, and there isn't room for that in the menu. > That's assuming we keep it doing what it does now, and as I said, I > agree with you that that's probably not useful. > > > If you change what it does, what will you change it to? You mention > > "Setting Sticky immediately" … > > I did? I thought I suggested “Keep notifications on screen”. > > > If you do this, you will have to make it clear somewhere that this > > overrides everything set in the Preferences. > > True. Perhaps “Keep all notifications on screen”. Yes, but does this make it clear that this is an *override* (intended for temporary use) to the prefs set in Preferences>Applications? Users must know that it's an option which can be turned on or off at the user's convenience. Don't forget that until they try it, users won't know it's a check/not-check option, they might think it immediately changes all the preferences in the Prefs pane. It's never as easy as it first appears... Thanks for bottom-posting in this forum, by the way. It helps a lot! Martin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
