On 01/08/2013 05:44, Trane Francks wrote: > It is with great disappointment that I see the demise of Growl support > in SeaMonkey 2.19. In looking for the reasoning behind this, the answer > was apparently that "Notification Centre is the way forward". This would > be grand except for the fact that OS X Snow Leopard and Lion both do not > *have* Notification Centre. > > The current fallback to XUL notifications is marginally useful, but only > when I'm working on the same virtual desktop on which SeaMonkey resides. > When I'm working on a different desktop and mail comes in, the XUL > notification is not visible and I'm left to go look through half-a-dozen > inboxes to try and decipher which account got the new mail. > > So, uh, who exactly thought this was moving forward? For those of us who > are not using Mountain Lion or Mavericks, this presents a fairly massive > step backwards in functionality. My early-2008 MacBook4,1 only goes as > far as Lion due to its 32-bit EFI. Unless I roll back to SeaMonkey > 2.17.1 and freeze my updates there -- not the most intelligent plan from > a security perspective -- I'm stuck with a SeaMonkey that now feels more > alien to the OS than it has in years. > > Not happy. > > trane
<http://logbot.glob.com.au/?c=mozilla%23maildev&s=17+Jan+2013&e=17+Jan+2013&h=growl#c57580> 14:48 RattyAway wsm: so first they removed growl support because they wanted to use the OSX notification centre. Then they disabled NC support because it wasn't ready. So now OSX users aren't going to get any notifications at all? 14:49 RattyAway o.O 14:49 wsm proof that truth is stranger than fiction? :) 14:52 wsm RattyAway: see also bug 715799 14:52 firebot Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=715799 nor, --, ---, nobody, NEW, Unified new mail notification implementation 14:52 RattyAway hrm 14:52 RattyAway I wish people would make up their minds. 14:55 wsm RattyAway: can they be unified? 14:56 * wsm unintended pun 14:56 bwinton XUL Notifications for all! 14:56 wsm and then we have the clutter of http://tinyurl.com/bfjpkeb 14:57 irving wasn't there another follow up bug where we put Growl back? 14:57 wsm irving: i thought so (doesn't run Mac) 14:58 wsm in 18 or 19 iirc 14:59 RattyAway Bug 806254 14:59 firebot Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806254 nor, --, Thunderbird 18.0, Nomis101, RESO FIXED, Add back Growl support for TB / SM Aurora 15:00 RattyAway Bug 806254 15:00 RattyAway oops 15:01 RattyAway Bug 827979 15:01 firebot Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=827979 nor, --, ---, joshmoz, NEW, add Growl support back for Firefox 19 (Beta) and Firefox 20 (Aurora) 15:01 RattyAway Bug 805837 15:01 firebot Bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805837 nor, --, ---, joshmoz, RESO FIXED, add Growl support back for Firefox 18 (Aurora) 15:02 jcranmer|away rule #1 of rewriting APIs: 15:02 RattyAway wsm: I had a look at the Growl Framework massively bloated and overkill 15:03 jcranmer|away deprecate the old API when the new API is shipped and released 15:03 jcranmer|away then remove it a version or two later Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
