On 11 Oct 2011, at 16:32, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 11, 2011, at 00:25:44, Phat Bob wrote:
>> Ignoring the debate over who broke which API and if there was even an API to 
>> break, has anyone given any consideration to writing a small tool that 
>> mimics the 1.2.x helper app and then forwards notifications it receives to 
>> 1.3?
>> 
>> This at least would fix apps which fail because they can't find 
>> "GrowlHelperApp".
> 
> Finding GrowlHelperApp isn't the problem since Growl 1.3 is, itself, a 
> GrowlHelperApp (it has the same bundle identifier). A lot of existing 
> AppleScript scripts would have broken if this weren't the case.

Understood

> 
> The problem is that there's no Growl *prefpane*. Any app that looks for the 
> prefpane (almost always by asking the framework whether Growl is installed) 
> will fail to find it for Growl 1.3. Any app that only notifies if the 
> prefpane is installed is not compatible with 1.3.
> 
> Not to say that what you're suggesting isn't a good idea. An empty prefpane 
> containing only a symlink from “GrowlHelperApp.app” to the real Growl.app 
> could work…

Ah - see, that's what I'm getting at!  Call it unsupported, a hack, whatever 
you like, but something like this would really help me out - and, I'm guessing, 
many others...

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