provide more information

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In the case of a website, we should extract some diffs resulting from the
update. That way, the user will be able to see a brief analysis of what
actually changed before visiting the website. It can also help tracking
false alerts.

In the case of emails, we should provide the following information:
- the received message subject
- the sender
- the priority, if available

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nekoh...@gmail.com on 12 Nov 2006 at 10:01

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Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 15 Nov 2006 at 12:08

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How will specto display this extra information?

Original comment by woutclym...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2006 at 10:23

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Now that's an interesting question, I forgot ;) this issue is open for 
discussion!
Some random ideas I'm throwing, but I don't think any of them is particularly 
good:
- additional button in the watch info pane, that when clicked:
-- could show a custom window that embeds a mozilla component to show an html 
diff
-- could start a greasemonkey-compatible browser showing the changes directly 
on the
page (highlighted?)
-- or something else?
- tooltip showing the changes

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 21 Nov 2006 at 11:25

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I agree that additional info would be highly desirable to make it easier to
prioritize the notification. Specifically, email notifications should display 
the
sender and a line or 2 of the message text. Google Talk mail notifications have 
this
feature and it's something I've come to rely on so much I wrote a custom gmail
monitor with the feature but I could dump mine (since it only monitors 1 thing) 
if
specto added this.

The needs and requirements for each watch type would have to be assessed 
individually
though. Watched files could include some kind of info about lines changed, size
difference, or who modified it or something along those lines. Modified web 
pages
could include some kind of diff info like number of changed lines or a short 
snippet
of the beginning of the change or something. RSS and Atom feeds could only be 
added
as web pages at the moment but could be handled specifically to notify about 
how many
feed items were added or perhaps the title of an update.

The "extra info" should obviously be kept brief but even a little extra detail 
would
be invaluable.

Original comment by beer...@gmail.com on 16 Feb 2007 at 5:00

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Still nobody has an idea how we could show this extra information? The gmail 
and i
also think pop3 watch already have a function to show the extra information but 
i
have no clue how i could show it...

If somebody has a good idea to provide this information, please tell me! After 
i know
how to show it, it will be implemented in no time!

Original comment by woutclym...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2007 at 9:50

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Well for "small" information (one liners), they should be shown in the 
notification
bubbles.
I don't know if it also could be an idea, for mail watches, to show a "from" 
field in
the info pane and tray tooltip. For example, $mailwatchname: from Bob, Sally, 
Gunter,
specto-commits...
But that might be a little too much. It could be tried and see what it looks 
like
when we have lots of events.

For the more complicated info (such as a complete visual html diff), that would
require a separate window... but we don't have such a complete html diff yet, 
so for
the moment being I guess we can cram info into the libnotify balloons.
Ideally, the balloons must not be the only place where we show that, because 
the user
might have deactivated them.

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 31 Aug 2007 at 1:23

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Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2007 at 12:15

• Changed state: Started
• Added labels: DevBranch-Jeff, DevBranch-Wout

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http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/diff/ enough said! :)

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2007 at 7:30

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How to show the information?

Remove "Specto" as the bubble title and replace it with the title of the event
(message subject for email notifications, perhaps event title for other types) 
and
for the body show
"To: <account name>, From: <sender>
This is the message body and
could be one, two, or more lines..."

Original comment by beer...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2007 at 7:56

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Implemented in 0.3

Original comment by woutclym...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2008 at 9:13

• Changed state: Fixed

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The mail watches are pretty tight now, but don't we want something better for 
web
watches and such? Like the pretty htmldiff, or use meld, or something.

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 5 Sep 2008 at 2:43

• Changed state: Started
• Removed labels: DevBranch-Jeff, DevBranch-Wout

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Issue 277 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2009 at 2:10

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I agree with this issue.

RSS and Atom feeds especially should be displayed in a manner such as '2 new 
entries' as opposed to 'x% changed'.

Original comment by heidel.s...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2010 at 5:21

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Ok, screw this. This bug report is too old, too vague, and at the end of the 
day it will only move forward if someone comes up with a patch, so I'm closing 
it again. New bugs can be filed for specific problems that still occur with 0.4.

Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2011 at 10:07

• Changed state: Fixed
• Added labels: Milestone-Release0.3