On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:04 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 22:52:07, Evan Schoenberg, M.D. wrote: >> GHA launches on demand; the checkbox is superfluous as far as I'm >> aware. > > GHA launches when an application registers, but does not launch on a > notification.
Ah, that's right. Still, since an app always registers before posting initially, it amounts to the same in userspace. > > The main reason to explicitly launch GHA on log-in (preferably as > early as possible) is that, otherwise, two apps may check for GHA at > the same time, find at the same time that no GHA is running, and each > launch a copy of GHA. At best, this is inefficient (one GHA will see > the other and immediately quit), and log-in time with multiple > applications launching is busy enough anyway. Is that true, though? Launch Services would see the second request to launch an app which is already launching and ignore it... Just like double clicking an application's icon in Finder while it is still in the process of loading. -Evan > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
