Perhaps.
Think about it over the week and see if you can come up with 3 good
and 3 bad things about the idea. I'll do the same (anyone can do
this). A week from now reply to this with your list and we'll come up
with weather or not this is a good idea for 80% of the user base most
likely.
Chris
On Feb 28, 2010, at 2:35 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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.
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