Last time I wrote I was very frustrated. Let me try and be a little more coherent today.
I'm on a Macbook Pro, OSX 1.7.2. After installing Growl form the Apple App Store, twice, I had no applications in the applications window in Growl Preferences. As Chris explained the app store does not allow for a folder to be attached to the app for extras, but that didn't explain why in this new version I could set up Growl. I downloaded Growl 1.2.2, opened it up took out the extras folder and installed Growl Tunes. I ran iTunes and when the song changed it showed me the new song as expected. Then I went to growl preferences and Growl Tunes showed in applications window of the Growl preferences. I was able to set the settings the way I wanted after that. It seems to work fine, however when I started playing music in iTunes this morning Growl Tunes seemed to crashed, it was on then when the changed and it didn't display the change I looked and it was off. I have not been able to repeat that and I'm not sure what happened. Upon turning Growl Tunes back on it seemed to work fine but I did have to go back in and reset my preference for the display again. This all my have been atrbuted to the system seeing a link to the old Growl Tunes and not switching to the new one. If it doesn't happen again I will assume that was what it was. Then I took my laptop off the charger and an app I run sent a message and Growl displayed it. Then I went back to the Growl preferences and that app showed in the applications window and I am able to set preferences for that now. That app is called Clusters. So it appears if some apps trigger Growl I can then see it in the applications window in Growl Preferences and I'm able to set the preferences for that app. On to GrowlMail. I looked in the extras folder and found a weblink that told me this, "GrowlMail has moved on to Rudy Richter", and a link to find the most current GrowlMail. I downloaded it and installed it as I would have in the past and it works. GrowlMail showed in the applications window of the Growl Preferences as soon as it was installed, I didn't have to wait to wait for a message to trigger it. It even let me click the Growl alert to open the message. So it appears the main difference between the App Store version of Growl for Lion and the old Growl, (at least for me), is that applications do not automatically appear in the Applications Window of the Growl Preferences. So my question is is this by design, or is this a bug, and what do I do for apps that were in the preferences window by default in the past, should they just work? Then after they work I'll be able to changes their preferences? For me my frustration came from the fact that after years of growl working the same way it always had it suddenly didn't, and it didn't after I had to pay for it for the first time. I think you're going to find that communication is key and if this changes are communicated better peoples frustration level will be much lower. On Nov 6, 7:37 pm, YourArtDirector <[email protected]> wrote: > Growl Tunes is one I want to use. I want Growl to tell me when I mail > in Mac Mail. In the past I would go into growl and set those up. In > the past I would go into applications and set those up. The only extra > thing I had to do was set up growl tunes to come on when system > booted. > > On Nov 6, 6:49 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Growl was always been on its own, and as you can probably tell the app > > store doesn't allow us to ship a separate folder with things in it, like > > Extras was set up in the past. > > > So if you want any of the Extras they are still available, for now, in the > > Extras folder in the 1.2.2 disk image. We're working to get GrowlTunes and > > HardwareGrowler into the app store. > > > However, what I'm looking for is for an example of 2-3 applications you > > want to use with Growl in order to help you troubleshoot the issue. > > > Chris > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:35 PM,YourArtDirector > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > I have no applications in my applications list. It used to have a lot > > > of applications now there is nothing. There is also no extras folder > > > like there used to be so I have no applications to work with Growl > > > there either? Maybe I thought maybe I missed something in the install > > > so I did it again, but nothing. Am I doing something wrong? > > > > On Nov 6, 6:09 pm, Christopher Forsythe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > What applications are you trying to get to work with Growl? > > > > > Chris > > > > > On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:07 PM,YourArtDirector > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > From all the posts I see Growl 1.3 doesn't work. I have no > > > > > applications after I installed it. This is the first time I have paid > > > > > for Growl, which I did happily because I found it very useful. 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