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I think the answer is to speed up the fade out slightly. I find it a bit too slow and I keep catching it with the mouse when I thought it had faded out. I thought the fade was part of the skin anyway? Some skins don't fade at all... Can't it just be an editable parameter in the skin?

The_Tick wrote:I don't get how the fade can be that annoying, I'll have to play with it more.

Is it more yet?

darmok wrote:Is it more yet?

There doesn't seem to be much development/traffic with Growl

I'd love to get my teeth into developing for it, I have so many ideas! Shame I wouldn't know how

I googled and found myself also here. My problem is that when the Growl notification appears, the fading "animation" slows some graphics down. If Im using a flash based site or playing a flash game with my browser (safari or firefox) flash animation becomes very very sluggish and choppy at the same time.

Example: Im playing a flash game and someone contacts me with msn-messenger. Growl notification fades in and graphic animation goes simultaneously very choppy. Then... Graphics becomes ok and smooth, when growl is displaying the notification but when it fades out, animation goes again choppy. Very annoying indeed.

ps: It also affects on my exposé animations same way

darmok wrote:

The_Tick wrote:I don't get how the fade can be that annoying, I'll have to play with it more.

Is it more yet?

Have you had a chance to gander at the development mailing list lately? We typically don't discuss development on the forums:

http://groups.google.com/group/growl-de ... 80526df587 for the thread about this.

jowie wrote:

darmok wrote:Is it more yet?

There doesn't seem to be much development/traffic with Growl

We're down from the 15-30 devs we used to have, to about maybe 5 total, if that. The codebase is rather big for that amount of people, who are all pretty busy.

http://groups.google.com/group/growl-de ... 80526df587 for the thread about this.

Many thanks for the update, I'm glad to know that you have started a discussion on this topic.

Thanks for your work!
Israel

More FadePain...

Previously, a growl displayed while watching something in QuickTime Player would cause the frame rate to slow dramatically during the Growl's fade in and fade out. Annoying but tolerable, sort of.

Since installing the latest QuickTime and Security Update...

On my 300-MHz Smurf... QT Player totally gives up during that fade in and fade out. The player window's video content goes black, while the sound continues normally. The video content resumes as soon as the fade is finished.

On my 1.5 GHz PowerBook... The video frame rate is reduced to point of looking cartoonish. If more growls appear, then the video goes black just like on the Smurf.

- Dan.

That quicktime update just plain sucks, it's been causing us problems on perian as well. The driver is the problem. File a ticket with apple at connect.apple.com about the laptop. I question even attempting to support your 300 mhz machine at times for Growl (and did for adium) so I wouldn't mention that machine at all to them.