The functionality is minutia to be honest. And it doesn't matter much now to be honest.
Basically what used to happen is that people would leave it in that state so that apps could register. However, now even if the app isn't running, I think we still receive registrations. That plus auto registration pretty much make this an obsolete preference. Your mockup is much clearer. I do not agree with putting in more preferences for preference sake though, I'd prefer to have a reason to keep it. Right now I'm leaning towards the "rip it out it smells like gym socks" side of the fence. Good point though. This sort of feedback is excellent. Chris On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:35 PM, lowell <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a user's natural tendency is to want to have all options > enabled. Couldn't the same option exist in the pref pane, except with > the logic reversed? Like in this quick mockup: > http://i.imgur.com/T8Z7v.png > > For what it's worth, a user can always stop Growl from the menu bar > instead of navigating to System Preferences, selecting the Growl > PrefPane and then clicking Hide All, so maybe removing it is best. Now > that I think about it, why _does_ Growl have a start/ stop _and_ a > hide/ show option? Is there some some functionality I'm missing that > is done off screen, where one would want to simply remove screen > notifications but not stop Growl altogether? > > --lowell > > On Mar 25, 12:14 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Peter what do you think about removing this pref? This is the 8th person > in > > 2 months I've run into this with. > > > > Alternatively, ideas for keeping it but making it more obvious would be > fine > > too. > > > > People on the list: Does anyone actually use the pref that caused Mouly > > problems? > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:57 PM, mouly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > That worked :) I did not see that coming > > > > > Thank you > > > Mouly > > > > > On Mar 25, 1:54 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Uncheck "hide all notifications". See if that helps. > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM, mouly <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Here is my Growl general preferences window: > > > > > > > > https://growldiscuss.googlegroups.com/web/Growl.jpg?gsc=YbSXEQsAAADBw. > > > .. > > > > > > > Mouly > > > > > > > On Mar 25, 12:23 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Can you make a screenshot of the general preferences of Growl and > > > upload > > > > > it > > > > > > to the group and send us the link? > > > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:23 AM, mouly <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > I sent a notification using BeepHammer and saw three new > entries in > > > > > > > the Console: > > > > >http://img.skitch.com/20100325-rsa785nuqqa3cf1p984xumtkkp.jpg > > > > > > > There was no entry from Growl. > > > > > > > > > I tried the Simplest Notifier Evar. Opening the app created > this > > > > > > > console entry => > > > > >http://img.skitch.com/20100325-1cshtxinfwxdai9khu52yiw85r.jpg.Clicking > > > > > > > on the notify button did nothing. > > > > > > > > > -mouly > > > > > > > > > On Mar 25, 10:03 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mar 25, 2010, at 07:01:38, mouly wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Where is the log file located? > > > > > > > > > > IIRC, it logs to the Console if a specific separate log file > > > isn't > > > > > > > > set, and there is currently no way to set that. 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