+1 on adding this feature from me as well. I have spoken to several other Growl users at work, and many agreed it would be very useful. In addition, I subscribe to Growl notifications from several other machines, and would love to be able to tell which machine sent the notification. Since earlier in this thread, the question of "why would you want this" arose, I will attempt to answer this from my perspective:
I use Time Machine Growler to notify me of the steps that Time Machine takes during the course of doing backups, from several machines. I also use sticky notifications when I want to review a group of notifications. If I walk away from my machine for a brief period (or take a phone call, etc.), I can't tell when the notifications specifically occurred, nor can I tell which machine they came from. Like many users, I looked for the ability to turn those items on (I suspect they would belong in the Display Options tab), and when I discovered they didn't exist, I resolved to live with it as is. Only after a bout of insomnia tonight, did I decide to Google it, and eventually came across this forum. For myself, I could live with a log viewer approach, but I think Garry's original request to have it be an option (or a possible option for a specific style), would make it more accessible to many users. I certainly don't see a downside to offering it as a setting, other than the effort to do the development work. I see how Brian use a script to get the current date, but I can't see any way to derive the machine that sent the notification in a similar fashion. All that being said, what is really being asked for are two new style keywords: %timestamp% and %machine% *** Brian - Any chance of PM'ing or publishing that style you worked up? I can't seem to reverse engineer it from your diff above, given the text wrapping here, and the sorry state of my brain at this hour. I would really like to work up a variant of Basics with a timestamp. Christopher Lobay really won my heart with that design *** -- 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.
