Comments on: Herald 1.0 Released

By: CKFD

CKFD — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:31:47 +0000

Hello

Very good job Erik!!! That s exactly what i needed…
I am testing your plug in in snow leopard and i have just installed it yesterday …..

My first impression is that it is a good plug in. Good job!

I may suggest a smart mailbox compatibility… I usually receive 100 to 150 mail per day!

Thanx a lot.

Macbook 13 unibody 5,1
intel core duo 2
Memory: 4 GB
Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)

Cheers,

ckfd

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:18:36 +0000

Just released an update that should work with 10.6.2 (let me know if you have any problems)

By: Tobias Battenberg

Tobias Battenberg — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:07:00 +0000

It stoped working with 10.6.2 (Mail 4.2) – any simple trick in the .plist possible? Or will you release an update?

Thanks from Germany!

By: Erik

Erik — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:46:17 +0000

Hi Fernando,

You can remove it manually by going into ~/Library/Mail/Bundles and deleting Herald.mailbundle.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:39:21 +0000

Hi,

I want to uninstall Herald but when I use the uninstall script that comes in the installation package nothing happens…

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:03:09 +0000

Hi L. Wolfe,

Thanks for the suggestions. There is actually already a “Mark as read” button (the one in the lower right). Also, the resizing bug will be fixed in the next version.

By: L. Wolfe

L. Wolfe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:16:36 +0000

Also, as a final note. I think the notification disappearing was from clicking the mouse although again, I can’t remember. Any advice/tips on this if I’m doing something wrong would be great!

I guess I would describe it as a balloon at this stage. It’s abit “floaty” and it can easily “pop” and disappear.

It needs to be “tied down” and made abit more “solid”

…like a brick lol!

By: L. Wolfe

L. Wolfe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:10:40 +0000

Btw, from memory I remember seeing a tick icon already for something else. I could be mistaken though.

By: L. Wolfe

L. Wolfe — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:07:30 +0000

Fantastic App!

Spaces support needed although I see you’re doing this in V.2

One thing that annoys me is when you position the notifications and resize them, it doesn’t save them after restarting. It would be nice to do this so you can define how much screen space it takes up and where it is on the screen permanently.

Finally, a “Mark as Read” button would be fantastic, what I mean by this is that you have to click a tick for example in order for the notification to disappear. Quite often a notification has popped up and once I’ve moved the mouse it’s vanished and I have to go into mail the normal way. This could be a config option as I said as having to do this every time may annoy other users.

Fantastic design though!

Thank you for making it : D

All the best!

By: Oleg

Oleg — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:59:36 +0000

Hi Erik!
Te idea is great and design is good too – but what I’m missing in Herald is opening of smart mailboxes in Mail.app instead of real mailboxes. I sort my mail by smart mailboxes and use only them while Mailboxes section is always collapsed – but everytime I hit the button on Herald notification I get Mailboxes unfolded and see the message in real mailbox.
So shortly – need some option to open messages in smart mailboxes – everything else is just great!