Re: holding notifications Perhaps, in the same vein as if one option-clicks on a notification they all disappear, how about keeping all the notifications on-screen if the option key is held down on mouse-over?
On 28 Feb 2010, at 06:29, Chris Forsythe wrote: > I don't think that when you have hundreds coming in, having them all stick on > screen is such a hot idea. > > I do like the idea of having them all stick if you mouse over one of them, > specifically. However, I'll have to think about that for a bit to think of > the different problems associated with that use case. If we use your first > example of the google reader notifications, keeping them all sticky is likely > to be a problem. > > This is where I think we need some kind of flood control. Something that > knows within Growl that you just logged in, and that these old notifications > are something you possibly don't need a notification about. It would require > that Growl Logging be improved so that you could see the notification in a > list, but just not get an on-screen notification. > > Chris > > On Feb 27, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Sebastian wrote: > >> Hi! Thanks for the quick response! I know the preferences and that I >> can set a certain app to stay on screen for indefinitive time. But >> that's not what I am looking for. >> >> I'll give you a real-world-example to explain what I mean: >> >> I am using a whole lot of Applications that constantly send >> notifications via Growl. When I log out of my computer and log back >> into it after several hours and start up Growl it checks for example >> online applications (Google Reader, Facebook,...) for status updates. >> Because in 8 to 10 hours (the time I am not on the computer) theres a >> lot of things happening in the world I get a lot (I mean: a lot) of >> notifications. Especially with Google Reader Growl plasters my monitor >> for 3 minutes with notifications rendering the computer unusable for >> several minutes (thats why I got rid of the Google Reader >> notifications btw... maybe someone could do something like an abridged >> notification-function in case you get some hundreds?). Even without >> the Google Reader I get something like 20 notifications from several >> applications that check stati (statuses) online as soon as I log in. >> Thats totally fine for me, I like to know whats going on, I want to >> read that stuff, but there s no way I could read them all in 5 >> seconds! But I dont want to stay them on the screen generally, while I >> am working. When I am working 5 seconds is totally fine, more sustain >> would be annoying. >> >> I just think it would be a good idea to make a function to make >> notifications stick to the screen as soon as one does a certain >> action. For example: move mouse on ONE notification will make ALL >> notifications stay on screen until one moves the mouse away again. >> That gives me time to read all that. >> >> Even 3 notifications can be difficult to read if you are concentrating >> on a Skype-call, you know. >> >> Maybe another solution could be a history-function, so that one could >> read the last 20 notifications in a pop-up-menu or something. >> >> Would be great if I could have made myself understood better this >> time. I think it might be a good extension of this nifty app! >> >> Thanks a lot, >> best regards, >> >> Se >> >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 28, 7:24 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Feb 27, 2010, at 11:37:52, Sebastian wrote: >>> >>>> when I log out of my computer and I come back and start it up again >>>> there's tons of news-updates from the interwebs that are getting >>>> notified by Growl. Good thing! >>> >>>> Bad thing about it: it does only stay on the screen for 5 seconds >>>> (the time that I set in the preferences). There s no time to read >>>> all that because the notifications disappear before I could finish >>>> reading them. >>> >>> You can set Growl to always keep notifications from that application >>> on the screen indefinitely using the Applications tab. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
