that's a joke right? So when someone sends me a message on trillian and I get no growl notification even though trillian is set up to notify me via growl, growl should do nothing? It's a pathetic application. On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Rachel Blackman wrote:
> 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 Unfortunately, Skype uses an outdated version of the framework, so you'll 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! -- 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.
