Left click on Thunderbird notify

[arminus]

Hi,

apparently after a growl or thunderbird plugin update, growl now opens
a thunderbird window with the email when I left click the
notification. I find that a bit odd, because normally I close a
notification with left click. (I know about the right click
close ...). But what's more: For some emails (haven't figured out the
pattern), the email window is empty (i.e. the email itself is not
displayed). I have the latest thunderbird on Vista.

For me, it would be nice if the thunderbird notification window would
close on left click ...


cheers,
Arminus

[Brian Dunnington]

the standard behavior across all apps that send Growl notifications
(on Windows, at least) is that left-click triggers their action, if
any, and right-click closes the notification. so if you see a
notification you want to act on, click it. otherwise, you have a few
options:

1. right-click instead to dismiss (as you mentioned)
2. do nothing and let the notification timeout on its own
3. Alt-X keyboard shortcut to dismiss the notification

if a notification has no action associated with it, then left-clicking
will essentially do the same thing as right-clicking. behind the
scenes, it is different though. you left click, it fires action (none,
in this case) and closes the notification.

if the Thunderbird plugin and/or Thunderbird is not opening the
correct email when left-clicked, then that is a bug. i will take a
look to see if i can fix it.