On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 6:22 PM, watson <[email protected]> wrote: > [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? > > Can you explain the problem a bit further?
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