On Oct 21, 2010, at 03:41:32, [email protected] wrote: > Surely an external banlist, host on growl.info eg. would be better than a > hard-coded list, as you could update as apps were identified?
Anyone running Little Snitch would be alarmed when Growl seemingly tried to “call home”. > Anyway, I’m not entirely sure this would end up helping terribly much; I can > envisage it frustrating users who actually want the notifications. Yeah, we'd have to document it. > Also, I seem to recall a large proportion of the users who have come to us so > far seem to only have become ‘aware’ of growl upon seeing the growl update > notification, which presumably would not be on your blacklist ;) True. Like I said, the main target I had in mind was Adobe's ad notifications. > I would suggest for the fresh install side of things, that perhaps all that > may be needed is a first-run “Welcome to Growl” window? > … > > I admit it won’t help with the dropbox re-installing it problem, but at least > off the bat after the first time it installs, users are made aware of it so > it doesn’t come as a surprise later on. I would expect even louder “WHAT THE F IS THIS S” screams here on the list from users presented with a “Welcome to Growl” dialog shortly after removing Growl. -- 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.
