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ethomaz replied on October 02, 2008 14:12 to the problem "Why do some apps. I add have Slife's icon instead of their own?" in Slife Labs:

We are working on it!

Serge replied on October 02, 2008 00:16 to the problem "Why do some apps. I add have Slife's icon instead of their own?" in Slife Labs:

I start to use Slife to track my work time. But it doesnt recognize my woork application (Komodo Edit).

I've added it in settings, mut Slife dont understand it and "takes" another Komodo from dock, so I have 2 Komodo's in list, and only one are tracking by Slife.

So, Slife even cant understand Komodo Icon, like that:

But Komodo have its own icon:

Please, fix this )

ethomaz replied on September 17, 2008 03:05 to the question "changing application icons..." in Slife Labs:

This is definitely on the active work list for things we want to include in Slife as quickly as possible. There are a few items ahead of it, but it's not far from the top.

Sorry this might be taking a bit longer than planned. We are taking care of issues (and prioritizing them) as fast as we can.

Jerry replied on September 16, 2008 15:56 to the question "changing application icons..." in Slife Labs:

I just downloaded slife 2.0.1 a week ago and it seems this problem of uninformative icons (Slife icon instead of actual application icon) is still happening. But isn't slife 2.0.1 "the next release"?

ethomaz replied on September 15, 2008 02:36 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

We are looking into the possibility of actually separating the Slife observer from the visualizer. That way, the observer would be always running in the background (small footprint) and you would be able to bring up the visualizer whenever you want to actually look at the data.

I wish I could tell you that this would be done very soon, but we are still a little ways from a release that addresses this issue.

kingmart replied on September 10, 2008 21:55 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

any update on this... its a pretty important feature of the program... dont need random apps cluttering the dock and cmd-tab

A comment on the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

Agreed. We need to see if we can support this behavior without making the app work like a background app. – ethomaz, on September 08, 2008 03:26

Nathan Bowers replied on September 05, 2008 23:08 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

Best option would be running in background.

2nd best would be Slife have a preference for hiding itself from Dock and Cmd-Tab without requiring DockDodger.

ethomaz replied on August 29, 2008 01:16 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

Thanks for the tip!

grappamaster replied on August 28, 2008 23:04 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

In the meantime, you can use Dock Dodger ( http://foggynoggin.com/dockdodger ) to hide slife from the dock... and if you use LightSwitch for apple+tabbing—that lets you hide apps as well.

mikevestal replied on August 20, 2008 18:22 to the problem "I hit update and my tweets just disappear.. did twitter block me or is it just an error?!" in Twitter:

I am experience this problem as well. I had typed "Good morning all. Thank you for being a friend and have a wonderful day" but saw no update and neither did friends. I have submitted a ticket and my Twitter id is mikevestal. Thanks

ShoppingNotes replied on August 20, 2008 14:51 to the problem "I hit update and my tweets just disappear.. did twitter block me or is it just an error?!" in Twitter:

Same problem here, I haven't been able to update for the last 5 days.
Username: ShoppingNotes
What I tried to post is links to blogs and some questions to my twitter friends. I have submitted a twitter support ticket, but haven't gotten any answer.

mofle replied on July 20, 2008 19:59 to the problem "Slife 2.0 cannot be run in the background." in Slife Labs:

Any updates on this?

ethomaz replied on July 10, 2008 21:50 to the problem "Lots of wonky button/UI/layout choices" in Slife Labs:

Thanks for the screenshot. We will be making adjustment changes to the UI over the next few releases... Stay tuned!

hkk replied on July 10, 2008 19:02 to the problem "Lots of wonky button/UI/layout choices" in Slife Labs:

I agree with most of the points made here. In particular, the time related controls should be up with the timeline as the original poster mentioned. See screenshot

ethomaz replied on July 08, 2008 00:54 to the problem "Slife interface very slow after 4 days of tracking" in Slife Labs:

Over time Slife does become a little slower since it keeps more data in memory to draw the visualizations. We've looking into ways to improve its performance.

From our tests, it does slow down a bit. We'll look into it.

Jerry reported a problem in Slife Labs on July 07, 2008 19:42:

Slife interface very slow after 4 days of tracking

I've been tracking my apps with Slife 2.0 for 4 days now and the app is becoming unusably slow. Especially the Day view is reeeeally laggy (like a slideshow), scrolling down is tedious so I try to avoid that screen in general.

Switching between Day, Month and Applications is anything but snappy, with again Day being the slowest, taking over a second to load.

Running on a Penryn Macbook Pro with 4gigs of RAM, so system performance shouldn't be an issue. Interestingly, the list has 29 apps after I removed a lot of apps I never asked Slife to track but it decided to track nonetheless (but that's another issue for another ticket).

System is Leopard 10.5.4. Please let me know if you need any more system info.

ethomaz replied on July 07, 2008 19:01 to the problem "Lots of wonky button/UI/layout choices" in Slife Labs:

We are working on an update to Slife 2.0 that will address some of these issues.

The idea of Slife showing the preferences in its own window was motivated by the idea that in the future Slife could run in the background and have everything in window could be nice in that scenario.

But if people don't like it, we change it!

A comment on the problem "Why do some apps. I add have Slife's icon instead of their own?" in Slife Labs:

Thanks! – dave@theconsultant.net, on July 06, 2008 20:14

ethomaz replied on July 06, 2008 20:09 to the problem "Why do some apps. I add have Slife's icon instead of their own?" in Slife Labs:

We are working on a way to change the icons and it will be included in one of the upcoming releases... Sometimes Slife can't obtain the right icon for a number of reasons, unfortunately.

This is a popular request:

http://getsatisfaction.com/slifelabs/...