On Jun 13, 2010, at 09:36:49, Jack wrote:
> For some reason after the OS upgrade Growl adds itself to the login items 
> whenever it is run.

That has nothing to do with the OS upgrade; the Growl installer does this when 
you install Growl.

Growl itself does not add itself to the login items. The Growl status item 
does, but only when started, which you would have to do yourself (by checking 
the box) if it's not already in the login items. If you did not check the box 
(the status item started “on its own”), then it was already in the login items. 
You can see this for yourself in the Accounts pane.

On a side note, upgrading to Leopard should not make your system slower. On the 
contrary, my three-year-old laptop ran a lot faster on Leopard than Tiger. 
Check Activity Monitor for processor- and/or disk-hogging processes, and maybe 
run a system trace in Shark or Instruments if you have the developer tools 
installed.

> The problem is when I reboot, Growl reappears in the menu and the pref not to 
> show is rechecked (it was unchecked before reboot).

The checkbox reflects whether the Growl status item is in the login items list. 
As I noted above, the status item will re-add itself to the login items list 
whenever you launch it.

The status item is separate from Growl's main process, so that the status item 
can indicate when Growl is turned off (main process not running). In this case, 
the status item will appear in the menu bar, but the enabled and disabled 
states of its menu items will reflect that Growl itself is not running (you 
would need to start it).

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to indicate visually that Growl is not running, 
but I'm not seeing the code for that. Did we remove that?

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