On Jun 16, 2010, at 01:55:44, godette wrote: > I will check out those links you suggested, but it seems to me that Growl is > pretty pointless cos most applications already come with their own notifiiers > built in?
Most applications do not. Not on the Mac, anyway. Most applications either use Growl exclusively or provide several combinable options, one of which is Growl. The other options typically include playing a sound, bouncing the Dock icon, and maybe presenting a dialog box. Growl exists, and is popular, because all three of these are poor ways to present a notification. Skype has its own visual notification system, at least for incoming calls (Growl does not do buttons, and Skype decided they wanted buttons in their incoming-call notification). The only other Mac apps I can think of that have ever had anything like Growl are Adium and Colloquy; Adium replaced its built-in visual notifier with Growl support (indeed, Growl was started in order to be that replacement), and Colloquy is the only app I know of that uses either Growl or a built-in visual notifier. All other applications that support Growl, as far as I know, don't have anything like it built-in. The applications that don't support Growl generally don't have anything like it, either; the one exception to *that* that I know of is Steam. -- 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.
