[putting the discuss group back on the thread] i'm going to let the other stuff go for now since i'm clearly not going to convince you of the more ambitious change.
back to the less ambitious one: >> 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. >> > > So far you're the only person that I can remember in the life of Growl that > has said this at all. We do want to give users the end control on anything > coming into Growl, so make that assumption, take a step back and think about > it. I'm not convinced that this is a good idea. ok ... lets step back. i'm a user. i want my email program to Growl at me for 1 second every 5 minutes to tell me how many new pieces of mail i have in my inbox. but if a piece of mail makes it through my "important" filter, i want the program to Growl at me for 5 seconds so it can display the Sender, Subject and first couple of lines of text of the email. furthermore, as a very picky user, I hate every single "display style" except for "Smoke". whats the solution? w -- 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.
