On Aug 30, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:55:48, raj wrote:
>> It would be really great to have Growl automatically extend the duration 
>> time (perhaps by 1.5 times) for each notification which is being posted on a 
>> screen which already has notifications posted.
>> 
>> For example, the first notification would have a duration of, say, 5 
>> seconds.  If another notification were posted during this same 5 seconds, 
>> it's duration would be 5 * 1.5 (2 would probably be too much) = 7.5 seconds. 
>>  If yet another notification were posted while the first 2 were still on the 
>> screen, its duration would be 5 * 1.5 * 2 = 15 seconds.
>> 
>> Does this make sense?
> 
> It does. I like it.
> 
> I don't think we have the manpower to actually implement this at this time, 
> but a patch for it would be welcomed.
> 
> In the meantime, you can extend the lifetime of a single notification 
> indefinitely by putting your mouse cursor over it. This obviously doesn't 
> scale to the situation you're talking about, though.

Would it be an easier change to extend that behavior to _all_ the notifications
on the screen at any given time - that is, have all of them persist while the
mouse cursor is over any of them?

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