On Oct 22, 6:31 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2010, at 21:07:31, Phoenix wrote: > > > That way, Growl would see that it had been previously uninstalled and a > > re-install would prompt Growl to explicitly prompt the user, … > > Dropbox doesn't install the latest version (0.7.110 installs 1.2), so it > wouldn't install any hypothetical future version that checked for this file.
Ah, ok. I was having the impression that Dropbox re-downloads and then installs Growl. However, I recall that it was standing somewhere that Dropbox uses a slightly modified version of Growl in order to install it. So, that was a mistake on my side. > > > … Of course, such applications like Dropbox can erase that file again, but > > then they really preying for trouble. > > Applications such as Dropbox already abuse the user's trust when they install > software without the user's permission. Making it more difficult doesn't > change the morality of it. Well. undermining people's trust is bad enough, overwriting a possible safeguard would go one step further and undermines people's trust AND give them a slap additionally for uninstalling Growl manually. The morality would be changed, but not for the good, rather to the bad. ;-) On 21 Oct 2010, at 18:31, Peter Hosey wrote: > 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. As you already stated that it is not possible to insert such a thing the following is just an idea for if it would have been possible: The "Welcome to Growl" message might be altered at that point including Dropbox to clearly distinguish who or what is currently calling the installer. Just to make it clear to the user. -- 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.
