On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:43 PM, watson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> this is unfortunate. doesn't it make sense that if a program can choose to >> pop-up a notification, it should also have the ability to take that >> notification down? >> > > Not to me. Please explain.
you've written a great little utility that gives programs the opportunity to pop-up notifications to the user. it chooses when to pop them up and what to say. lets say a program pops up a 'sticky' notification. once something changes in the state of a program that makes the notification no longer relevant (inaccurate or outdated for example), it seems logical to me that the program should be able to remove that notification. >> i understand we want the user in control of how the notifications appear. >> but as the sole user of the program i'm writing, *I* want to have my wishes >> for control of these notifications respected via this program. >> > > Unfortunately we can't design Growl just for you. that is unfortunate! fortunately, its not just me that this is applicable to. all i am saying is that maybe there is a false dichotomy between the interests of the user and that of the program. in limiting how a program is able to choose to pop up notifications, the user is limited to vanilla state-unaware options for durations. even if you wanted to force the user to control things through the Growl preferences panel, here is a simple, incremental improvement: make "duration" one of the parameters (along with "display style", "stay on screen", "priority" and "play sound") that can be modulated through notification specific preferences. it doesn't make sense to me that "duration" would be married to "display style". if it's going to be married to something it would make more sense for it to be married to the specific notification a program is sending. cheers, watson -- 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.
