On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 8:10 PM -0600 3/3/2011, Christopher Forsythe wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Dan wrote: >> >>> At 10:18 AM -0800 3/3/2011, Tassilo Jäger-Kleinicke wrote: >>> >>>> would be nice to have a time indications in the sticky notifications >>>> >>> >>> yea! Time stamps on all the notifications would be great to have! >>> >> >> I disagree. I think it'd add unnecessary text to the display. >> >> However, I think if you need to know, that having a ctrl click/context >> menu with additional information, or a way to see that, would be better. >> > > That would be ok if there were only a growl or two. But often when I > unafk, there are a dozen or more growls on my screen! Having to ctrl-click > on each and every one.... *shudder*! A time stamp would provide a *fast* > visual indication. Perhaps an option to make the time stamp only appear on > the idle-made sticky growls? > > > A log viewer should show an even better time stamp based ui without cluttering up the notifications themselves.
Personally I think that we should probably look at including the text of what application is shown so that users know which application to disable. But then if you go one step further, you can say "hey, let's figure out how to disable from the notification directly, and remove the need to go to the prefpane" Similar things come to mind. However, none of them really come to mind that need to really have a time stamp other than when you walk away from your computer and go idle. Which to me would be better served by a log view with a way to get a picture of what happened overall, and then roll the notifications up into one so that screen covering doesn't happen like you describe. This is a better approach imho, and the one that our newest Developer is working on. This way we resolve multiple issues. We can make it so that if you go idle, your screen doesn't fill up. We can remove a preference for idle, and then make a reasonable assumption about how long is long enough for idle (if someone is away for five minutes, start rolling up notifications (time is arbitrary in this example)). We can accomplish a lot of making Growl easier to use while at the same time solving the problem that power users like yourself run into. You want to know more meta information about a notification (time). I can understand that based on this scenario. However, I think it's better to think about how to address that without making it harder on a notification style like Nano to display this information. Chris > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. > > -- > 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 at > http://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 at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
