Hello! Thanks for the quick replies... I like these ideas!
I think it would be totally sufficient if there was an option in the preferences that one could put on or off. Something like: "Keep all notifications on screen on mouse-over". Holding the option key might be one action too much to do. Just as an example: I have a conference call on Skype and there are notifications coming in, but I can not read them all, because I have to concentrate on the talk. Holding down the option key while hovering the mouse to a message and then pressing the option key until I find the time to read the notifications seems not to be the right thing to do if you have to hold down the option key for - lets say - 5 minutes? Maybe another solution could be to click into one notification while holding down the option-key. This could trigger to turn all upcoming notifications to stay on the screen. That would make more sense. Would be great to get updated when some changes are made! Thanks for your interest in my ideas! Best regards, Sebastian On Mar 1, 5:35 am, [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. > > >> -- > >> 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 > >> athttp://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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. 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