You're the only one complaining about this. We made a change to see if it's more usable or not.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Yann Ricquebourg < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Again, > > Let's be serious now. > I don't share the point of view of inventing statistics out of the hat. > But if you want a couple of reasons why it doesn't make sense: > > - "Sosumi" in the list of actions doesn't make sense because... it's not > the name of an action! > (it's the name of a sound, the one set inside as parameter of the action). > That's straight forward. > (Should we suggest Apple to rename "Alert Sound" with "Tink" or "Sosumi" > after the user selected it in system pane). > > - Growl don't follow the same "straight forward" rule for Speech action, > then not consistent with Sound Action for the user. > > - And since you imagined a scenario, I suggest another one: > > * you're a normal user, not the developer of Growl > * you select "Basso" sound for the action associated to Hardware Growler > notifications > (you see it written explicitly "Basso" associated to HardwareGrowler, > that's clear and written, > and not something more general: you specifically clicked on "Basso"). > * another day you play with "Actions" from global Display pane and select > "Sosumi" in > that general pane, why not. Maybe, you even paid attention and observed > that now "Sosumi" appeared in actions... > * you are a user of Growl, you heard that there were global settings in > Growl... and that applications > could have their particular settings. > Moreover since you're just a user (and not the developer) you would be > very smart to guess > that in fact, everywheren you expecitly thought to select "Basso", in fact > you did not > select "Basso" but the global "SoundAction" and therefore all your "Basso" > have now been transformed > into "Sosumi". > And since you did not check every particular setting of each app, > you will hear a good sound surprise at next HardwareGrowler notification > ;-) > > But according to the Census Bureau that concerns only 10% of the users. > > regards, > > -Yann. > > Chris Forsythe wrote on 20/08/13 at 21:49 > >> Why would this not make sense? You choose a sound and it then shows the >> sound as the name. Then anywhere else in the interface it's the sound name. >> It seems pretty straight forward to me that this would make life easier for >> 90% of people. >> >> -- >> Chris Forsythe >> @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick> >> >> >> On Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Yann Ricquebourg wrote: >> >> Hello, >>> >>> I noticed recently that selecting (in Displays pane) another global >>> sound for SoundAction >>> changed the name of the action in the list of actions, using the name of >>> the sound >>> (e.g. "SoundAction" changed into "Basso", or "Sosumi"... / tested on OS >>> X 10.7.5) >>> >>> Is it really normal? >>> >>> This is quite surprising since: >>> - it's not really usual: >>> for instance changing the voice for Speech action, doesn't change the >>> name in the list of actions. >>> >>> - moreover giving (currently) the specific name of the selected sound to >>> the Sound action may even >>> be misleading for the user: when he sets specific settings for a >>> particular app, he could think he is >>> really attributing "Basso" sound (since it's written so for the action >>> he selected). >>> And if he change something on the global Displays preference pane, this >>> pane will change >>> the action name into "Sosumi"... and change this sound for every >>> application, even set with "Basso"... >>> (which is totally normal due to current Growl sound action behavior >>> which is global). >>> >>> Then, my point of view is that the action name should remain >>> "SoundAction" (or equivalent). >>> >>> Best regards, >>> -Yann. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Growl Discuss" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to >>> growldiscuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<growldiscuss%[email protected]><mailto: >>> growldiscuss+**[email protected]<growldiscuss%[email protected]> >>> >. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto: >>> growldiscuss@**googlegroups.com <[email protected]>>. >>> >>> Visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/**group/growldiscuss<http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss> >>> . >>> For more options, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >>> . >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Growl Discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to >> growldiscuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<growldiscuss%[email protected]> >> . >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/**group/growldiscuss<http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss> >> . >> For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> >> . >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > growldiscuss+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<growldiscuss%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/growldiscuss<http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > -- Chris Forsythe @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. 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