user notification system between different user accounts?
What about a user notification system which provides information
- especially status/PROGRESS information - between different user accounts?
Example:
User A renders a FinalCut Movie, than another user switches to
User B to manage his/her tasks. User A wants to switch back when his movie is finished. How does he know? Other than listening to HD spinning?
3rd party stuff already, - make me know it?
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PS: Perhaps this is something i'd really like to see in Tiger.
- especially status/PROGRESS information - between different user accounts?
Example:
User A renders a FinalCut Movie, than another user switches to
User B to manage his/her tasks. User A wants to switch back when his movie is finished. How does he know? Other than listening to HD spinning?
3rd party stuff already, - make me know it?
best
PS: Perhaps this is something i'd really like to see in Tiger.
Comments
Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
How many people use multiple accounts like this on a single machine??? Is these even feasible while rendering a movie in Final Cut?
of course
Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
How many people use multiple accounts like this on a single machine??? Is these even feasible while rendering a movie in Final Cut?
There are a lot more thinkable reasons to actually HAVE such a notification system.
Off top of my head-->
? iCal notification
? email notification (assuming you are on DSL/Cable)
? iChat notification (Invitation to videochat)
(i think these tasks a pretty common, and IF you gonna share a computer
and (more or less) work at the same time, you'd appreciate any kind of information what's going on on the other side
well
? online chess
? what else?
Progressbars should somehow magically emerge from the other side
What do you think?
Getting the current user to relinquish active status might be tougher. "User A's render is done... too bad... shouldn't have left... my render is top process now."
Originally posted by curiousuburb
Acquisition and a few other apps have a preferences tickbox for "bounce dock icon on completion or d/l" or similar GUI flag that's already getting passed to the OS. ...
perhaps in the not so far future this feature becomes quite common. Bouncing through userscount
Getting the current user to relinquish active status might be tougher. "User A's render is done... too bad... shouldn't have left... my render is top process now." [/B]
Yes indeed. Hm. What a bloody mess!
Originally posted by bauman
I think there's a program called LanOSD that will do this for you, but I've never played with it myself. It uses bezels to communicate to the nearest screen, whether that be a different user, or a different computer.
I'll check that through though
Googledidoo.
Originally posted by tonton
This is dangerous as there's a huge risk the open user will lose data. Unless you can only log out those users who don't have ANY open applications.
Windows 2000 lets you do this, and it's a useful feature. Of course there's the risk of dataloss, but what if you want to reboot? Do you really want to wait for all people to log out until you can?
As to notification, there's Growl; I wonder if they plan anything of FUS support.
Originally posted by tonton
This is dangerous as there's a huge risk the open user will lose data. Unless you can only log out those users who don't have ANY open applications.
It's no more dangerous than allowing the admin to shutdown the computer when multiple users are still logged in.
OMG DANGEROUS!!!! RED ALERT!!11
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Originally posted by talksense101
Dual monitors with output from Final Cut on the second monitor? Will that work?
nope
Originally posted by Gee4orce
Activity Monitor will allow you to view the %CPU of another users' tasks. That should solve the problem of knowing when a long running job has finished.
Actually this is what i do now
Or terminal TOP