On 18 Jul 2012, at 17:54, WesTurner wrote: > Hello all, > > #1: > I've bought the growl 1.4 from the app store. The transition was a bit of a > pain. Here's to hoping the growl team can work on proper clean-up scripts. It > seems that when I paid for, downloaded, and installed the latest growl > application from the app store, it was ignorant to the older version, which > caused conflicts. On a reboot, even after using the uninstall script, the old > preference pane was still present and the app store had growl marked for an > update. Is there something preventing the install process from performing > this maintenance clean-up on its own? If so, that is unfortunate. It seems > un-mac to have to delve into uninstall scripts to upgrade to the latest > version. Reminds me of MS office and adobe installs.
It is unfortunately (I believe) a bug in the app store. If you haven't already, grab a copy of the uninstaller for 1.2 from http://growl.info/downloads and remove the old pref pane completely along with the new Growl.app, then download from the app store fresh. > #2: > Also, after reading this page, it states that growl doesn't need to be > installed in order for growl to work? How does this work? I've already > installed it, so it's a moot point, but I would like to know. How would one > enable growl notifications and furthermore, disable and configure certain > apps, on Lion if they don't download the growl app? Is configuration then > left to the apps that have these notifications itself? and the growl app is > then an override for themes,etc? Applications using the new Growl framework have bundled in this framework a thing called Mist which is like a Growl lite. Basically the framework looks for Growl, and if it finds it, sends Growl notifications as usual. However, if it doesn't it uses this built-in notification system instead, which displays growl-like notifications but with no customisation and other useful bits available like you get with Growl. If you want to see what it looks like, find an app that makes use of the new framework (for instance Adium), quit Growl, and generate a notification; it will use Mist instead. -- 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.
