Sticky notifications when idle behavior

[zobo]

Hi,

I recently enabled Growl notifications for some events in Adium and have noticed some unfortunate behavior. I have the preference of "Sticky notifications after 30s of inactivity" set which normally does what I want, because when I come back to my machine I can click on the notifications to dismiss them. But when clicking on the Adium notifications it opens a window to send an IM to the person who came online while I was away, for example. There is no way to simply dismiss the notifications that I am aware of.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or an enhancement request, but I would prefer if I could have notifications that arrive while I am idle be sticky and become un-sticky when I become un-idle, i.e. they would self-dismiss after the usual number of seconds that non-sticky notifications were displayed. This could be either default behavior or an additional checkbox "Unstickify notifications after activity resumes" that was selectable only when "Sticky notifications after 30s of inactivity" was selected.

By the way, thanks to all the developers for a great piece of software!

[The_Tick]

Option+click to dismiss for now. We're aware of the problem and will hopefully have a better way of doing it in a later version

[benjags]

you could put a little "x" or something like that on the corner of the sticky notifications to close them..

[evands]

you could put a little "x" or something like that on the corner of the sticky notifications to close them..

http://trac.growl.info/trac/ticket/145

[zobo]

Just curious: do others agree that the idea of an option to unstickify upon resumption of activity has merit? If so I would be happy to file an RFE, because to me at least, the ideal behavior would be that notifications would disappear automatically after the usual time interval after I become active at the console.

Thanks for the workaround in any case.

Option+click to dismiss for now. We're aware of the problem and will hopefully have a better way of doing it in a later version

[The_Tick]

Negative, unstickying would be the same as clicking the close button.

[zobo]

Understood, but since Growl is smart enough to change its behavior when I go idle and make the notifications sticky, it makes sense that it should also be clever enough to notice when I return and at that time, to revert notifications to the sticky/nonsticky state that the notifier originally requested.

The idea is that in having selected non-sticky notifications in Adium I indicated something like, "I'll notice these notifications when they pop up and I don't want to have to manually dismiss them" and it seems like this preference could be gracefully honored by Growl for notifications that arrive while idle by reverting to the previous stickiness state upon resumption of activity.

Negative, unstickying would be the same as clicking the close button.

[The_Tick]

Understood, but since Growl is smart enough to change its behavior when I go idle and make the notifications sticky, it makes sense that it should also be clever enough to notice when I return and at that time, to revert notifications to the sticky/nonsticky state that the notifier originally requested.

The idea is that in having selected non-sticky notifications in Adium I indicated something like, "I'll notice these notifications when they pop up and I don't want to have to manually dismiss them" and it seems like this preference could be gracefully honored by Growl for notifications that arrive while idle by reverting to the previous stickiness state upon resumption of activity.

Negative, unstickying would be the same as clicking the close button.

So if you got 30 notifications while away, when you came back you'd want them to all go nonsticky? That doesn't make sense, they'd all disappear before you could read 3 of them.

Your request so far has been either covered, or won't be implemented.

[benjags]

you could put a little "x" or something like that on the corner of the sticky notifications to close them..

http://trac.growl.info/trac/ticket/145

I'm not very original I guess