There are issues with Growl, it is now a paid app, *developers have to make changes* to their code to make it fully work but they also *don't have to make any changes to make it fully work*. I really don't understand, but it seems a mess to me.
There are *two podcasts about what happened*. One pro, from the developers, one con, from a user. Here is one<http://basementcoders.com/2011/10/episode-47-fork-you-growl-interview-with-perry-metzger/>, make sure you listen to the other from the developer before forming an opinion. I however, can't find it in a fully confirmed way. My personal opinion is it was a weak move to make a money play. Fine, I am ok with that, *( devs need t make a living and Growl has ben free for something like 8 years ) *but just say so, and never blame your developers for your mistakes. And never ask your users to go into the .app and *show package contents* to make changes to an internal file/resource. It's why apple hides .app and makes it hard to get into a .pkg and while ~/Library *( as of Lion )* is now hidden – and soon, it will require a ton more work to enter into an application if people keep this up. A kind developer forked Growl making all these issues a non issue. From what I understand, if you buy the version on the app store, at a very reasonable price by the way, and don't fully uninstall the old version, as the uninstaller doesn't work perfectly, you yield yourself a broken system. It was one apx one line to fix this, so someone on the mailing list did. He was kicked off the mailing list for doing so, *or that is my interpretation of it*, but please, read and listen for yourself. The mailing list guy will more than likely fully fork Growl and start a new Growl making us all happy again. I can't find a user who is happy about this *( Based on comments on blogs )*, and it surely is not about the measly few bucks – there is more to it than this. Here is the link<http://basementcoders.com/2011/10/episode-47-fork-you-growl-interview-with-perry-metzger/> to the interview with the developer who was asked to leave the mailing list: http://basementcoders.com/2011/10/episode-47-fork-you-growl-interview-with-perry-metzger/ Here is a link<http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/08/interview-growls-project-lead-on-coming-to-the-mac-app-store/> to what my lead you to the interview with the Growl developers commenting on the issue: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/08/interview-growls-project-lead-on-coming-to-the-mac-app-store/ If you listen to the forked interview, you will see he is a really fair and nice guy. I hope it can all be worked out, Growl does so much. And app foes not have time to add in sounds, well, Growl can do that for you. An app does not have time to add in alerts, well, Growl can do that for you. It is such a great tool that I would hate to see encumbered by bureaucracy. I hope I have explained this in as unbiased a way as possible. But please, do listen to the podcasts and do your research before forming an opinion. -- Scott On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Che Dog <[email protected]> wrote: > Growl 1.3.1 on Lion has stopped working with Mailplane 2.5.5 Preview. > Not sure how to troubleshoot? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mailplaneapp" 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/mailplaneapp?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mailplaneapp" 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/mailplaneapp?hl=en.
