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Option to Hide Menubar Widget Unless Required #317

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What feature or enhancement do you propose?
Quite simply I'd like to see some options for controlling the Growl menubar 
widget, specifically I'd like to see three options:
 - Always Visible
 - As Required
 - Never Visible

This will allow a user to have the menubar widget if desired either all the 
time, or none of the time.

The more interesting case however is "As Required", in which case the widget 
will only appear if the user has history enabled, and new items are available. 
In this case the widget can be pressed to view, and then choose "Dismiss" to 
hide it until more new history arrives or, optionally, simply opening the menu 
could be enough to dismiss it once you allow it to close.

What problem does it solve/What benefit does it provide?
It reduces the clutter that can quickly be accumulated with multiple 
applications that use menubar widgets, and keeps Growl as a purely "background" 
process unless desired or needed.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by harav...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 10:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Just a note to say that this would go well with Issue #316, as it can serve as 
an additional visual cue.

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 8 Oct 2011 at 10:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by rarich...@gmail.com on 9 Oct 2011 at 5:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
We're not going to make the menu item on demand.

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 9 Oct 2011 at 10:58

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Any reason why not? I don't really want it visible all the time as I don't have 
a huge number of Growl notifications, so it's just unnecessary clutter, but I 
wouldn't like to have it hidden all the time as it's a nice neat indicator of 
new history.

If there's a difficult technical reason then fine, but otherwise I don't think 
it should just be dismissed.

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2011 at 10:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
i think you should be able to hide the growl menubar as well, because i have 
loads of menubar icons and they can all hide them and its the only one that 
cant be hidden!

Original comment by simonsmi...@gmail.com on 10 Oct 2011 at 2:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'm guessing because there is no alternative if it has to abide by the Mac App 
Store rules. I would like to hid it as well, but seeing as its probably not 
going to happen I'm going to try and live without it for a while. My menubar 
needs to be clean :( (heh, slight OCD there I guess)

Original comment by he...@clearassembly.com on 2 Nov 2011 at 1:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This ticket is a duplicate of 296. 296 is closed as fixed. :)

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 2 Nov 2011 at 2:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This issue isn't strictly a duplicate, due to the requirement item, allowing to 
only appear on demand rather than be either on or off and nothing in between.

Original comment by harav...@gmail.com on 2 Nov 2011 at 11:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
That's fixed too.

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 2 Nov 2011 at 1:39