On Mar 16, 2009, at 02:58:02, Martin S Taylor wrote:
> On Mar 16, 9:21 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 16, 2009, at 02:17:19, Martin S Taylor wrote:
>>> 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.
Another reason not to do that. ;-)
>>> 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.
Truth. We could explain this in the tooltip:
When checked, Growl will keep all notifications on screen, regardless
of your settings in the Growl preference pane. Hold Option while
closing a notification to close all of them.
I'm open to alternative suggestions for a new menu item title.
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