Hi Again,
Let's be serious now.
I don't share the point of view of inventing statistics out of the hat.
But if you want a couple of reasons why it doesn't make sense:
- "Sosumi" in the list of actions doesn't make sense because... it's not the
name of an action!
(it's the name of a sound, the one set inside as parameter of the action).
That's straight forward.
(Should we suggest Apple to rename "Alert Sound" with "Tink" or "Sosumi" after
the user selected it in system pane).
- Growl don't follow the same "straight forward" rule for Speech action, then
not consistent with Sound Action for the user.
- And since you imagined a scenario, I suggest another one:
* you're a normal user, not the developer of Growl
* you select "Basso" sound for the action associated to Hardware Growler
notifications
(you see it written explicitly "Basso" associated to HardwareGrowler, that's
clear and written,
and not something more general: you specifically clicked on "Basso").
* another day you play with "Actions" from global Display pane and select
"Sosumi" in
that general pane, why not. Maybe, you even paid attention and observed that now
"Sosumi" appeared in actions...
* you are a user of Growl, you heard that there were global settings in
Growl... and that applications
could have their particular settings.
Moreover since you're just a user (and not the developer) you would be very
smart to guess
that in fact, everywheren you expecitly thought to select "Basso", in fact you
did not
select "Basso" but the global "SoundAction" and therefore all your "Basso" have
now been transformed
into "Sosumi".
And since you did not check every particular setting of each app,
you will hear a good sound surprise at next HardwareGrowler notification ;-)
But according to the Census Bureau that concerns only 10% of the users.
regards,
-Yann.
Chris Forsythe wrote on 20/08/13 at 21:49
Why would this not make sense? You choose a sound and it then shows the sound
as the name. Then anywhere else in the interface it's the sound name. It seems
pretty straight forward to me that this would make life easier for 90% of
people.
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Chris Forsythe
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On Saturday, August 17, 2013 at 5:45 AM, Yann Ricquebourg wrote:
Hello,
I noticed recently that selecting (in Displays pane) another global sound for
SoundAction
changed the name of the action in the list of actions, using the name of the
sound
(e.g. "SoundAction" changed into "Basso", or "Sosumi"... / tested on OS X
10.7.5)
Is it really normal?
This is quite surprising since:
- it's not really usual:
for instance changing the voice for Speech action, doesn't change the name in
the list of actions.
- moreover giving (currently) the specific name of the selected sound to the
Sound action may even
be misleading for the user: when he sets specific settings for a particular
app, he could think he is
really attributing "Basso" sound (since it's written so for the action he
selected).
And if he change something on the global Displays preference pane, this pane
will change
the action name into "Sosumi"... and change this sound for every application, even set
with "Basso"...
(which is totally normal due to current Growl sound action behavior which is
global).
Then, my point of view is that the action name should remain "SoundAction" (or
equivalent).
Best regards,
-Yann.
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