PhotoStickies bouncing dock icon - for what?

Miscellaneous Needful things
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First of all, I’m a huge fan of Photostickies - have used about a year now and it’s my favourite app of all time!

Question: When I have several webcams going at once and am working in other apps with PS in the background, I get a bouncing dock icon every few minutes, indicating that PS needs some attention. I cannot tell for what my attention is needed! Is one of the webcams ‘hung’? They are all set on “wait for”, no recording, nothing that should need my help. I can’t seems to find anything that tells me what the issue is with needing my attention?

I know, this is minor, but would like to resolve the distraction of the bouncer…

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Thank you for the feedback!

PhotoStickies bounces its Dock icon every time a “waiting” cam starts to send new images after a pause and therefore it’s a good idea to adapt the interval to the real cam interval (as a too small interval results in too much bouncing).

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Can that be shut off? I don’t want to be notified every time an image updates. I just want to be able to look and see the latest without the notification. Very distracting.

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I started this topic six months ago and I did something to deal with it at the time but have forgotten what I did.

The issue just came back with PS 5.3, so I changed the mode to ‘start’ rather than ‘wait’ for each of the images and that seems to have dealt with the problem. And for cams, I think you need to set the interval longer than the real cam interval.

I think this is a “feature” that to some of us seems like an annoyance, but hey I’m not going to complain because I love the app so much!

I wish all windows could be made chrome/ui-less. Wouldn’t it be great to have a Terminal or a browser window like that?

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I came looking for discussion of this issue and see that it was last addressed just about exactly a year ago.

For me this is a major annoyance. There are a couple of webcams I like to keep running in Photostickies. IMO there should be way to turn the bouncing icon off completely.

thanks,
Binky

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Thank you for the feedback. The next release will probably include such an option. In the meantime, running PS as a menu extra is one way to bypass this “annoyance”.