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Make the Rollup window less obtrusive #302

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
There should be a way to make the Rollup window less obtrusive (i.e. when 
watching a fullscreen video).

One way to do so would be to have the Rollup window hidden when pausing Growl 
and, as soon as it's unpaused, the window would show, containing all the 
notifications received during the pause.

An alternative to this I can think of is to send the window to the background 
rather than make it pop up as the frontmost window, but the lack of a Dock 
entry could make it hard to access (well, I don't think the App Store rules 
forbid putting another App bundle within the main app - GeekTool does that for 
example - so it would be possible to have a helper app with its own Dock window 
handle the Rollup part maybe, just throwing ideas)

The main reason that pushed me to upgrade (and purchase the 1.3 version on the 
MAS) is the Rollup, knowing that my idle notifications would be sent there 
instead of stickying above my movie player... but if Rollup pops up as the 
frontmost window, it defeats the purpose completely, as it's an even bigger 
window than one notification.
I know I can disable Rollup, but I like how it works. When I'm not watching a 
movie.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by emanuele...@gmail.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 6:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
"One way to do so would be to have the Rollup window hidden when pausing Growl 
and, as soon as it's unpaused, the window would show, containing all the 
notifications received during the pause."

I agree. The rollup is very unpleasant when I'm watching a movie.

Original comment by cervin...@gmail.com on 28 Oct 2011 at 11:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 14 Nov 2011 at 12:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Is this issue going to be resolved soon?

Original comment by WinPhone...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2012 at 7:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Most likely not. We have other items with a higher priority.

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 15 Jan 2012 at 9:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Well it now seams that the rollup doesn't show when growl is paused. Can you 
confirm this?

Original comment by cervin...@gmail.com on 15 Jan 2012 at 11:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by ch...@growl.info on 8 Feb 2012 at 3:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I would appreciate it if you'd add this feature (hide rollup while playing 
film, or similar solutions) to Growl soon.

Original comment by bernd.sc...@it-agile.de on 24 Aug 2012 at 12:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Idle exceptions based on the active app will be in Growl 2.0 as a hidden 
feature.  If you add an array object to the Growl prefs file with the key 
IdleTimeExceptions and add as the items in the array identifiers (like 
com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX for quicktime) for the apps you want to ignore, it 
will ignore idle by time (but not idle by screen lock, screensaver, etc) if 
that app is the active app.  UI for this feature ran into a priority issue, as 
well as the issue of whether this is the right solution for this.

Original comment by dan...@growl.info on 24 Aug 2012 at 11:16