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Only have one notifications option in RECAP, not two. #193

Closed mlissner closed 6 years ago

mlissner commented 6 years ago

This fits in with #185, because it'll allow us to have a simpler dialog box. Right now it has two options:

  1. Notify me on login
  2. Notify me on upload

People like notifications or they don't. Let's just have one notification box, eh? Once that's done, it'll be easier to add a choice for file names, and I think we'll be off to the races.

johnhawkinson commented 6 years ago

People like notifications or they don't.

I am...actually not sure that's true.

As a classic FF user, I traditionally had notifications on, and my OS default made them audible as well as an ephemeral notice window in a corner of my screen. In relatively recent months, I found myself doing more PACER work than in the past, and it got to the point where I disabled the audio (esp. because it would occur seemingly multiple times for the "login" notice).

I was kind of looking forward to experimenting with the recap-chrome extension's more fine-grained options. I think I'd like a notice, maybe audible, with the upload, but not with "login," whatever that means.

But I'm not sure. (And I haven't had a chance to experiment with that in the new extension since it took all my discretionary time to try to get baseline functionality working, cf. #182).

Once that's done, it'll be easier to add a choice for file names

Seems like taking away features should not be on the priority list ahead of feature parity in the days before the public release that is time-sensitive driven by external deadlines.

mlissner commented 6 years ago

This code is already in place, I'm afraid, and about to land.

On this one, I'm making an executive decision to simplify, especially since it's not a big difference to get a few more notifications when RECAP activates — plus, this brings us closer to old FF parity. It already feels nicer to me having fewer options.