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GROWL FOR MAC LION UPDATE
GROWL FOR MAC LION UPGRADE
GROWL FOR MAC LION SOFTWARE
GROWL FOR MAC LION CODE

Every app that I use that had growl support works fine, including custom scripts i've written that just send it information from the command line.For many, many years, Mac users have been using Growl to receive notifications from their apps. The app store reviews are a bunch of blathering ninnyhammers, with the 'blah blah rabble rabble you changed something so go fuck yourself' attitude.

Growl.app is now a centralized notification manager.

GROWL FOR MAC LION SOFTWARE

you don't need any third party software to see them.

with out writing their own (probably awful implementation) notifications.

developers can provide notifications to you.

Also, you can very easily control what you see from each application. This makes applications that rely on growl still be able to show notifications, but now you have to change each the notification settings for each application in each respective application.

GROWL FOR MAC LION UPDATE

When developers update their application to support Growl 1.3, Growl will no longer be required for them to display a notification to you. but you don't need Growl to get notifications. If i'm busy, and don't want any distractions, you can just globally disable all notifications from a single place. What growl is (when you buy it) is the centralized location for all your notifications. What do I get - or not get - running each of those? Which should I run on Lion - the old Growl 1.2.2, the forked Growl Fork 1.2.2f1, or the new Growl 1.3.2? And "if you don’t need the newer features in the official version and just want compatibility with Lion and your apps to continue receiving notifications, Growl Fork works just fine." Well, okay, that sound great, but what are the newer features and since the blog post about 1.3 says "you don't need Growl to get notifications" do I even need 1.3 for those "newer features"?! Wait! More wrinkles! There's also something called Growl Fork which (since Growl is open source, see above) takes the pre-Lion 1.2.2 version of Growl and does somethingsomething XCode 4.1 blahblah compiles cleanly yaddayadda and now it's 1.2.

GROWL FOR MAC LION CODE

which again, for us less technical folk, quickly gets into blahblah mercurial yaddayadda Google Code somethingsomething oh look it's time for NCIS re-runs, thankgod. When developers update their application to support Growl 1.3, Growl will no longer be required for them to display a notification to you." Huh? WTF am I giving you two dollars for then?!Ĭomplicate it even further by the fact that since Growl is open source, it's still possible to get it (presumably Growl 1.3.2) without paying for it by building it from the source code yourself. But what does concern me is the boatload of reviews on the App Store that says the new version (Growl 1.3.2) doesn't work (apparently because now everyone that had written an app to work with Growl 1.2 has to re-do it to work with Growl 1.3).įurther adding to the confusion, is this Growl blog post that says "Growl is no longer free to download. The two bucks doesn't concern me I'm happy to support good software, esp if it's only two bucks. I certainly understand that Lion changed some things and somethingsomething sandboxing blahblah tech stuff I don't get yadda yadda, hence there's got to be a new version of Growl specific to Lion.īut what was once free software is now $1.99 and only available through the App Store.

GROWL FOR MAC LION UPGRADE

So I keep getting a notification from Growl to upgrade Growl via the App Store.