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Inactive-icon (f.e. lighter grey) in menubar #199

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What feature or enhancement do you propose?

If i am in a presentation i usually  deactivate growl because the notifications 
are not useful in this mode. But after the presentation i forgot that i 
disabled growl until i miss a expected notification.

What problem does it solve/What benefit does it provide?

So it would be useful to indicate a deactivated/stopped growl via icon in the 
menubar - F.e. lighter grey if it's disabled. It should be easy to integrate 
this feature?!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by conrad.c...@googlemail.com on 11 May 2011 at 7:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by p...@growl.info on 11 May 2011 at 8:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Besides disabling Growl, I wonder if we can do something different. Like take 
the rollup window and throw it at the level right above the desktop so it 
doesn't interfere with full screen items?

Regardless, I agree this is something to be worked on. I don't agree that it's 
simple like the original ticket creator. I think we should split this into 2 
tickets:

1) This one. When Growl is disabled, show a different icon in the menubar icon.

2) While much harder, figure out a solution so that end users don't need to 
disable Growl in these types of scenarios.

Thoughts?

Peter on either item, can you determine the difficulty? If this would take 2-3 
hours to work on for item 1, I think it's appropriate for 1.3. What is your 
opinion on it though?

Original comment by chrisf.g...@gmail.com on 11 May 2011 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I consider this ticket to be entirely about item 1; the part about being in a 
presentation is just context. We already have a ticket for handling 
presentation-like situations better: 
http://code.google.com/p/growl/issues/detail?id=48

This is something I've wanted for some time, but never got around to filing.

I agree that it should go in 1.3, assuming that's also when we kill off squelch 
mode (which is what graying out the status item currently means).

Original comment by p...@growl.info on 11 May 2011 at 8:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
the current source in default doesn't detect GHA running properly 100% of the 
time, but squelch mode is already purged and the icon is already being set to 
the grayed out state when it detects that growl isn't running.

Original comment by rarich...@gmail.com on 12 May 2011 at 1:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Today i've installed the b3-Betaversion with the implementation of grayed out 
state when notifications should be hidden.

That funcionality fits my requirements but it's very circumstantial to disable 
notifications via preferences. So there should be a direct selection when you 
press the icon in the menuebar: "Hide notifications" (like Sticky 
Notifications).

The target is to provide a fast and easy way to disable notifications via 
menuebar (f.e. presentations, etc.) and display a greyed out state in that 
scenario?!

Original comment by conrad.c...@googlemail.com on 31 May 2011 at 7:36

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Additionally a shortcut would be nice ...

Original comment by conrad.c...@googlemail.com on 31 May 2011 at 7:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
b3 of Growl? You should be using the final version.

Original comment by chrisf.g...@gmail.com on 31 May 2011 at 8:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
@conrad: We used to have such a menu item and have removed the feature it 
controlled entirely (including from the prefpane) for 1.3. The only way to 
start and stop showing notifications in 1.3 onward will be starting and 
stopping Growl. There is no difference in effect (i.e., in whether 
notifications are shown), and the status item's icon will reflect whether Growl 
is running.

Original comment by p...@growl.info on 31 May 2011 at 10:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This has actually changed again. With growl merging all of its various pieces 
into a single application for 1.3 there is now a Pause Growl/Resume Growl menu 
item and the menubar icon is greyed when Growl is paused.  closing as fixed for 
now, we have to investigate the feasibility of global hot keys under apple's 
sandboxing rules.

Original comment by rarich...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2011 at 4:22