FYI: think of Growl sort of like an e-mail client. Even if you have the e-mail client downloaded and installed, if no one sends you e-mail you don't have anything to read in the client... just a big, empty inbox. Growl provides a centralized system for nice, configurable notifications from applications, but if you don't have any applications set up to generate those notifications, then there's not a lot for it to do.
On Nov 7, 2011, at 8:26 PM, Philip Palermo wrote: > Trillian, skype, mail? Trillian should work out-of-box with Growl. You can check whether or not Trillian's even /seeing/ Growl by going to Trillian -> Preferences, Notifications. If all the notification options are greyed out, Growl isn't being picked up. Make sure you /are/ running build 1.2.2, the latest build! If that's not enough to get you working on Trillian, talk to me off-list and I'll try to get you sorted (I'm the developer). Unfortunately, Skype uses an outdated version of the framework, so you'll need to use GrowlVersionDetective -- available from http://growl.info/downloads -- to upgrade the framework. That'll get it up and running until Skype releases a new version with a less cobwebby old version of the framework. For Mail.app, there's a third-party plugin called GrowlMail which generates Growl notifications when new mail arrives; you can find GrowlMail at http://code.google.com/p/growlmail/downloads/list as a free download. Hopefully that helps!
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