Feature request: "seen all" button

[Adam]

Please give us the ability to dismiss all notifications at once. I
often don't need to read them, and in those cases, clicking through
them one by one is a tedious process. Thanks!

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 16:42:24, Adam wrote:
> Please give us the ability to dismiss all notifications at once.

This happens when you hold down option while clicking the close box on a single notification.

[Christopher Forsythe]

What if when users clicked on the x, it slid 2 buttons out and said
"close this/close all"

[Evan Schoenberg, M.D.]

That would annoy the heck out me.  We're implementing standard OS X behavior for closing windows.

-Evan

[Christopher Forsythe]

Ya, I'm just trying to think of a way to make this more obvious, since
it's a common question.

What if on mouse over for the first 3 times it showed a black tooltip
with white text talking about using the option key?

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 16:53:36, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
> What if on mouse over for the first 3 times it showed a black tooltip with white text talking about using the option key?

Or, how about this:

If you close five notifications in quick succession and there are still at least two on the screen, show a notification from Growl:

Title: Growl tip: Close All
Description: You can option-click a notification's close box to close all notifications that are on the screen.

[Evan Schoenberg, M.D.]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Oct 19, 2010, at 16:53:36, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
>> What if on mouse over for the first 3 times it showed a black tooltip with white text talking about using the option key?

I'm not volunteering to code it, but that sounds reasonable - I can picture it with an arrow pointing to the close button itself.

> Or, how about this:
>
> If you close five notifications in quick succession and there are still at least two on the screen, show a notification from Growl:
>
> Title: Growl tip: Close All
> Description: You can option-click a notification's close box to close all notifications that are on the screen.

That'd work, too, but it seems somewhat computationally expense (have to monitor closing timing) for a rarely applicable tip.

-Evan

[Peter Hosey]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 17:00:07, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote:
> That'd work, too, but it seems somewhat computationally expense (have to monitor closing timing) for a rarely applicable tip.

It wouldn't have to be actually based on timing. Count notification closes until a notification fades out and none remain on the screen, then reset the counter. If the counter hits five, see how many remain, and if there are at least two left, show the close-all notification.

We could also set a flag to not show the tip again for the rest of the session, and set a permanent flag in defaults the first time the user pulls off a close-all.

[David Coulson]

On 10/19/10 7:53 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
> Ya, I'm just trying to think of a way to make this more obvious, since
> it's a common question.

Or how about if you have the pointer over a growl notification window
and press 'option' it highlights the close button on all notifications
like when you mouse over it.

David

[Christopher Forsythe]

What about the users who don't know to hit option at all? :)

Chris

[Peter Hosey]

I think it's still a good idea. It'd help reinforce the suggestion from the Growl notification.

[Christopher Forsythe]

Sure, I don't think it's bad at all. I'm wondering if he has other
ideas for those other users though.

[David Coulson]

On 10/19/10 8:50 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:
> Sure, I don't think it's bad at all. I'm wondering if he has other
> ideas for those other users though.
>

An entry on the FAQ page? There isn't really a standard 'Apple' way of
indicating option makes clicking do something different - For example,
how do I know that doing 'option-click' on my wifi tells me all the gory
details, when regular clicking just gives me a list of SSIDs?

My only other idea would be to have a preferences option to select
'multi-close key binding' and default it to option. Kind of a round
about way to do it.

David

[Tim Visher]

I really like this idea! I don't know if there are other "pro" types
like this for growl but I had no idea that option-clicking the close
button closed them all. I usually would just restart growl to get rid
of a bunch at once which always felt like overkill. I think you could
work in a whole bunch of these event based notifications from growl
that tried to clue you in on better ways of doing things.

You'd need to provide a way to turn it off but why not just provide
that via the preference pane? You could provide a list of pro tips
that activate when the right event triggers and then allow them to be
(de)activated via the preferences.

Anyway, brilliant idea. Hope it makes it in in the next few releases!

--

In Christ,

Timmy V.

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[Adam]

That works great, thank you. I consider myself an informed user, but I
haven't encountered that one yet, nor did I need it. No other app of
mine has so many windows, and even if they do, I can just keep
pressing W while holding down Command to make them all disappear.
Anyway, this is great. The tooltip ideas make sense too. Thanks!

[Phoenix]

While I like David's idea, for those not knowing about pressing the
option key why not include a second close button (one having the
standard 'X' in it and the other one with 3 'X's where the two others
are offset from the original and a bit dimmer than the front-most).
That way someone could image that not only this, but also all others
get closed when pressing it.

Just my 50 cent on this.