SUGGESTION : Add time stamp on notifications

[guga]

Ok you set up your Growl preferences to stick a notification on your
screen and keep it there until you get back and read it. Lets say for
the sake of discussion that Growl notifies you of your Skype contacts
going on and off line. Now when you come back your screen is covered
in Growl notifications. You have a rough idea of the chronology of
your notifications as they have a default starting position (that is
your oldest one) and all following notification are posted after the
previous one in an orderly manner. But you have no clue as to the
specific time (date, hours, minutes and second) of each one of them.
This might be useful to know when your Skype contact went on and off
line, for example. I'm surprised that none of the Growl Display Styles
(and there are lots of them) contemplate adding this information to
the notification popping up on your screen. It should be a relatively
easy task for Growl to look at the current time on the System clock
and stamp it on the notification. I hope the Growl staff will include
this feature in the next release.

[BobF4321]

I'll add my vote for this one.
Also, a time-stamped notification log would be useful in case of
machine crashes.

[Peter Hosey]

On Jun 07, 2008, at 04:06:03, BobF4321 wrote:
> Also, a time-stamped notification log would be useful in case of
> machine crashes.

There are some hidden prefs you can use to do this. Run the following
commands in a terminal:

defaults write com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp "Custom log history 1" \
-string "$HOME/Library/Logs/Growl.log"
defaults write com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp GrowlLogType -int 1
defaults write com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp GrowlLoggingEnabled -bool YES
osascript -e 'quit app "GrowlHelperApp"'
open -ga GrowlHelperApp