What if, lets say, N > 50, then Growl displays a message saying "Too many growls to display on screen. Do you want to see a list in Textedit?" and if the user clicks the growl-popup, a list opens in textedit where the user can see all growls.
Not a perfect solution, but just a suggestion to keep the ball rolling. -David Munch On Oct 13, 1:00 am, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > This all said, keep the ideas coming, you'll definitely come up with > scenarios that others haven't come up with. > > This is a big problem for Growl, and we need to think it through for how to > resolve it. > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]>wrote: > > > And then if you have 100 notifications, they come in very slowly, and > > forever. Thought of that already. > > > What if you had 1000 notifications? Think about how that would work. > > > N should not be configurable, since we have the advanced screen overflowing > > that was introduced in 1.x. > > > No, I don't misunderstand :) I just don't think you've thought of the whole > > problem. A rolodex system when we start detecting a notification flood is in > > my opinion better than this. > > > Chris > > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 6:42 PM, FrancoSanta <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I think you misunderstood my point. > > >> I am saying something like this: > > >> if( numberOfCurrentNotificationsOnScreen() >= N ){ > >> HOLD_NOTIFICATIONS_TO_SHOW_LATER(); > >> } else { > >> SHOW_RIGHT_NOW() > >> } > > >> where N is a param that you can configure. > > >> This way they won't fill up the screen, the will just fill up **PART** > >> of the screen. > > >> On Oct 12, 6:10 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > We've had this on the list for years now. Unfortunately there's not a > >> simple > >> > way to do it that just makes sense. > > >> > Currently the last idea was to group them by application, and then have > >> > arrows to the right and left to see the next/previous notification. > > >> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:27 PM, FrancoSanta <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > > I love Growl and use GrowlMail a lot for Mail.app but sometimes the > >> > > notifications fill my whole screen. > > >> > > I want to be able to say to Growl to show just a number of > >> > > notifications at a time. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
