[TxMt] Growl instead of tool tips

Allan Odgaard throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Thu Mar 2 13:11:28 UTC 2006


On 1/3/2006, at 17:03, Fred B. wrote:

> 1) How can I catch the output of svn commands?

Currently not really possible w/o editing them. But we could work in  
e.g. a bash (or Ruby) function into the command init which we use for  
“status information”, and that functcion could optionally be sourced  
from a location in ~ -- that way, the user would be able to provide  
his own status information hooks.

But I am not entirely sure what the best approach is here.

> 2) More generally, wouldn't it be nice to add Growl to the output  
> options? What do you think Allan?

I am not really liking that -- Growl is an optional install, so not  
all will have it, meaning that TM shoukd probably hide the option,  
when Growl isn’t installed, and have commands fall back to tool tip  
output or similar.

If that becomes the case, I would much rather see that handled  
entirely as a bash (or Ruby) function, which commands then make use  
of, as that is more extensible and (to me) appears less hardcoded.

As for tool tips, I think the suggestions (from Brad) about a)  
ignoring mouse movement e.g. for the first 1-2 seconds, and/or b)  
require a little more mousing for it to hide, would be nice  
improvements.






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