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Growl integration
New Tweets show up in the Growl notification area.
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Note that Growl.framework is already bundled in the app ;). Coming really soon!
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Good to have the sender's ID at the top of the tweet, instead of just "New tweet". My suggestion to improve this still further: Just scrub the "New tweet from" bit altogether. The sender's ID by itself would be fine.
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Hmmm, the new Growl integration in 1.1 is very... odd. Growl titles aren't usernames (instead they are all titled "New Mention", etc.), and so far I just get a generic Tweetie icon in stead of the user icon.
The SIMBL workaround someone posted here worked much better (usernames as Growl notice titles, actual user icons), although I like the per-account notification settings in the official implementation.
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When you will add Growl support, please do it as nicely as the rest of the application is done:
- Avoid to fill the screen with Growl messages, for instance after a network interruption. If there are more than 2-3 Growl messages that need to be displayed at the same time, please group them into one saying for instance that there are 20 new tweets.
- Make that clicking on a Growl message pops-up Tweetie with the view scrolled to the appropriate message.
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I think it should be configurable. Like Growl notifications on: all tweets / mentions / DMs.
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Inappropriate?taqumi - thanks a heap for the tip about the Notifications options. I totally missed that bit in the settings - probably because I only have one account, so didn't think there was anything in the accounts panel I needed to look at. Now slightly embarassed ... -
Inappropriate?Feature request: sticky notifications option - notifications stay on screen until dismissed by escape key or close with mouse (option key to close all)6 Comments Add a comment
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You can already do this in your Growl preferences. Simply go in to your Growl preference panel, choose Tweetie on the "Applications" tab and you can choose different notification preferences for tweets, mentions or DMs. -
Yes, true. But that means you have to configure the individual application settings that way. Growl's default is "Application decides", and many users prefer to just have all Growl prefs set to that. Just a consistency issue really. However it is easy enough to manually set it in Growl for now.
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Well then how about we take a poll. I hate sticky notifications.
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Hopefully if this was implemented in Tweetie, it would be a choice. Seems unnecessary to me, at least, to reproduce functionality that already exists in Growl. The question makes me wonder, though, for curiosity's sake, whether any applications decide to make Growl sticky, only because I can't think of any.
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I know iChat / Chax will make them sticky if you're away or idle, as will last.fm, but the moment your back they lose their stick.
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Gee, I've really started a buzz here, haven't I! Unintentional, I assure you ;-) To clarify - I'm definitely talking about an optional setting. Very much an individual preference thing. For me personally sticky notifications work well for tweets because I have time to read (or at least skim) them without needing to make Tweetie the active app. Especially useful if I've been out for a bit. But that's me (and probably some other people). I'm definitely talking _choice_. I've been using an obscure little freeware app called Scalaris that does tweets this way through Growl, and it's very functional for me. Since I've settled on Tweetie as my main Twitter app, I'd just like to be able to have that functionality available to me so I'm not using multiple apps for the same thing. YMMV ...
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Inappropriate?Since Growl offers granular settings, I am not sure what the point is here...
I set my DMs & Mentions to sticky in the Growl prefs for Tweetie, regular tweets just fade away. Option-click on the close button closes all.
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Fair point - and must admit I hadn't realised just how granular (great word!). Maybe it's better to just to leave it as something you set in Growl? I'd suggest the Tweetie devs include fairly detailed Growl config instructions in the manual when they get around to that.
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No. They should put a link to growl's help file where it's already explained.
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No. They should put a link to growl's help file where it's already explained.
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If you are using growl, I don't think it's up to the Tweetie devs to explain how to use it properly. Perhaps a link to the Sys Prefs pane, but otherwise it's like adding the ability to email something from another program -- that other program doesn't need a manual on how to use the email program.
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Logically you guys are right. But if I was a dev wanting to serve my users I'd be thinking about the likely range of geekness I'm dealing with. Not all users are sufficiently geeked up to work everything out for themselves. I myself am a case in point. I'd consider myself an experienced intermediate macuser, and I've been using Growl with several apps for quite a while. And yet I've learnt a heap I didn't know from this thread. It's up to the Tweetie devs whether they do this or not, but IMO it would just be a smart - and helpful - move to cover all the bases.
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Inappropriate?Any chance we could have the Growl tiles actually display who the tweet/mention/DM is from? 'New x' isn't very useful - I know it's new, that's why I'm getting a Growl notification for it :P
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Inappropriate?For anyone who missed the comment above, there is a free 3rd party plugin workaround to the Growl issue: http://getsatisfaction.com/atebits/to... and it works great!3 Comments Add a comment
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Although it's a nice temporary solution, what would really be nice is an integrated one. This is also clear proof want some needed change in the product!
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Agreed, but the plugin/hack works exactly as I want, so I am glad for it in the meantime.
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Fair enough. But I too am looking forward to further development of the feature. I'm not quite geeky enough to feel confident using the plugin.
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Not quite sure which bits are done? Titles on tiles...?
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You configure grown for how you want the titles to look. Whether or not you want replies, DM and timeline notifications.
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Inappropriate?Just upgraded to the new v1.2. Haven't received any new tweets yet, but I can say that unfortunately I still get zapped with notifications for "193 New Tweets", "6 Direct Messages" and "11 New Mentions" on launch.
But looking forward to the bits that have been improved. Keep it up
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You need to configure in growl for DM, mentions and timeline.
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You need to configure in growl for DM, mentions and timeline.
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No. I mean when Tweetie is first launched I get growl messages telling me some mega number of tweets etc, described as "new". So it seems to be counting my tweets going back several weeks. It is an improvement on v1.1, which actually popped up individual growl notifications for a gazillion old tweets on launch.
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It basically notifies on whatever Tweetie loads at launch, then proceeds normally afterwards. I think the client just doesn't save that state when it exits. I believe Twitterific for Mac behaves the same way.
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ok, thanks for that. On reflection I guess I can probably live with just 3 notifications I don't need.
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Inappropriate?Good to have the sender's ID at the top of the tweet, instead of just "New tweet". My suggestion to improve this still further: Just scrub the "New tweet from" bit altogether. The sender's ID by itself would be fine.
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Agreed on this.
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Yes, definitely, this would make growl headers much smaller and would make it more bearable when many tweets come in at once.
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I suppose the theory might be that "New Tweet" would help to differentiate between a tweet, a mention, or a DM, but there are other ways to address this (I have Growl use different colors and notification styles for each of the three types).
If somebody wants that level of detail, its easy enough to configure Growl to provide it. For many others, a new tweet is a new tweet, regardless of whether it's a reply, mention, or DM. -
I disagree. Though I would be okay with "reply from" in the header of a mention, it is still very obvious when you see @yourname in the tweet.
Since it is likely that a person gets less replies than normal tweets, having something like "reply from username" wouldn't be too excessive. Having "New Tweet from username" at the beginning of every growl message fills up the screen much faster. -
I definitely think the "New Tweet" is superfluous. Just scrub it. The fact that we're getting a Growl notification indicates it's a new tweet. Just put the person's username. If it's a mention, it'll be obvious because...our Twitter username will be in there.
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Inappropriate?I would even like just to see the avatar, nothing else. I know these people and/or know what avator goes with whom.
Make it configurable - the more flexible the better.
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Configurable would be quite nice; though for me, an icon by itself is not good enough. Some of those whom I follow don't use an icon and some tweets are too ambiguous to define whom has said what.
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Inappropriate?Maybe I'm more 'visually cued' (if that's a word) or just weird ;) I even make connections to ambiguous ones - some people I follow just use one colour in their avatar.
If it's configurable (and set by default to verbose notifications, for instance) Tweetie can cater to everyone.1 Comment Add a comment
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Configurability would be excellent. It would also put tweetie ahead of any other app supporting growl (never seen one that would change header style)
