How is it useful to know the progress of something is happening, versus just knowing when it's done?
We need to be very clear here that the scope of Growl isn't to be something that doesn't fit. I don't think progress bars fit. While it'd be a neat UI trick, I think it's a different place than where Growl needs to be. My point here is this. Growl is meant to be very lightweight notifications, i.e. that you only get notifications on as few things as possible, while keeping those things very very informative to you. Another way to look at it is that Growl should notify you about things you can do something about. A notification window that just sits there and provides a status of how far along something which would take an hour to do isn't very useful. A sticky notification for when it's done is useful. I'll comment inline. On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Pedro Estarque <[email protected]> wrote: > I have several scripts that would benefit from that. > One, for example, zips my PSDs, makes a thumbnail, creates the html tags and > uploads them through ftp. > Each step takes some time, specially uploading, and being able to flow the > progress is great. > But can you do anything? Is knowing how far along more useful than being notified that the whole workflow finished, or that the workflow failed at $n step? I would contend that since you cannot do anything with the progress bar, that it's almost useless for purposes other than pedantry, but that knowing when the job is completed is much more informative. > I use a slightly hacked version of CocoaDialog for the progress bar to > happen in the background. > I run 2 instances of CocoaDialog simultaneously, one overlapping the other, > thus "updating" the bubble. I increased the icon size limit so that would > fit a bar and changed the plist setting to LSBackgroundOnly so that it > doesn't change the focus. It kind of works, but it's an ugly hack. I think > Growl could do much better. > That is pretty gross. > http://pedro.estarque.com.br/random/CocoaDialogProgressBar.png > Kind of pretty, but notice how you basically aren't doing anything with this? > I also have an rsync script that basically warns “Back up started” and “Back > up completed”. > I guess I could pop a dialog every 1/10th of the way, but I'd much rather be > able display a proper progress bar. > Why would you even need to know about it being 5/10 completed? Are you going to all of the sudden going to need to do something when it's 5/10 of the way done? Chris > On Oct 14, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > >> I'll rip it out of growlnotify when I get my laptop situation resolved. >> >> Why is showing a progress bar useful? >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Pedro Estarque <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Why is this option there then? >>> IMO, if it doesn't do a thing it shouldn't be there, right? >>> >>> I don't know what Growl is for or not, but being able to show a progress >>> bar >>> in a bezel like unobtrusive way is a very useful thing. >>> >>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Peter Hosey wrote: >>> >>>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 12:23:17, Pedro wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi, does anyone knows how to use this option? >>>> >>>> >>>> It doesn't work. Growl doesn't support progress indications in >>>> notifications. >>>> >>>> I think Ingmar added API for it, but Growl has never actually supported >>>> it >>>> and it's always been our stance that we will not. 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