kithrup

I implemented the feature after being yelled at, and then it went to QA testing, and... the QA people could not figure out how to block zoom or WhatsApp. "Oh," I said, "you need to specify this particular name, which you can find by running the application and using ps to see what is actually running." Had a brief call with the QA guys and the Product Manager this morning, who asked, "Ok, to block slak, what do I need to enter?" To which the answer is "Slack Helper.app, Slack Helper (Renderer).app, and/or Slack Helper (Plugin).app."

The PM has now said, "Yeah, we're going to change it to specify the app display name, because otherwise that's way too complicated."

So, you know, the thing I had initially implemented.

The coworker (not boss) who had annoyed me so much initially chimed in during this announcement and said "But that's not what we agreed to," and the PM commented that doing it the same way as on Windows is a lot harder on the Mac.

We'll see what happens now. I'm actually going to propose a compromise solution, but I'm not sure it's a good UX yet.