On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just tested it, and: > > 1. It still installs Growl without asking for permission. (We knew this would > happen, since the Dropbox developers have said on multiple times that they > don't want to ask non-technical users for permission to install anything.) > 2. They have fixed it reinstalling after you uninstall. > 3. It still installs Growl 1.2, not 1.2.1. > 4. It installs Growl 1.2 even if you already have Growl 1.2.1. (This is a new > bug in 1.0, if I remember 0.7's behavior correctly.) > 5. It is a custom-built Growl 1.2, though I can't tell whether there are any > Dropbox modifications to it (e.g., disabling other apps by default). The > “Growl for Dropbox” branding is gone; to the user, it looks the same as our > release. GrowlHelperApp's size is different, but I couldn't say why. >
I've been in communication with the Dropbox developers. Essentially in the next version after 1.0, they're going to make us all happy. They'll stop shipping Growl itself. There was a misunderstanding between our two groups (Growl team and Dropbox team) in that they didn't understand the problem we were seeing, and interpretted it as another problem. It's not worth going into this further, just needless to say I think they would have resolved this for us much sooner if they had understood the problem how we understood it. So the quickest thing they could do with 1.0 and still ship it on time was to revert their intended changes, and then in the next version to release without an installing Growl. They're hoping to have that version out soon. This is great news for us, and great news for Dropbox users. Hopefully very soon we won't have to worry about this anymore. I want to mention that the votes that everyone cast were likely helpful here. Thank you very much for taking the time to vote on that item in their votebox for us folks, it's much appreciated. Chris Growl Project Lead -- 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.
