On Oct 23, 5:21 am, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 22, 2010, at 21:06:31, Phoenix wrote: > > > However, I recall that it was standing somewhere that Dropbox uses a > > slightly modified version of Growl in order to install it. > > Not that I was able to determine. As far as I could tell, it's the same Growl > 1.2 we distributed. >
I see. Not sure from where I got the idea then. ;-) > > 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. > > Dropbox isn't the only guilty application; we wouldn't want to finger it > specifically if it wasn't what installed Growl. We'd need to be able to tell > which application actually did it, and that's impossible, too—there's no way > to tell what application wrote out a file. Sorry, that I was imprecise. I did not mean to hardcode a specific brand (like Dropbox), but rather meant to have a variable filled with whatever called a program. So, if the user executes something, the calling program would usually be the Finder, if a program launches something, the calling program would be that program (be it Dropbox or something else). So, I was hoping that it was possible to intercept who was calling the installer and get a customized welcome message like "Welcome to Growl installing by <program_name_here>" if it is not the Finder. However, as you pointed out, the Growl package is already bundled within. So, it would not be possible to retrofit it with such a functionality. Though it might be something to give some thoughts on for a future release. -- 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.
