 | Nov 29 2009 |
MIGUEL I got fed up of the constant notifications to update. I also hated whenever notifications got on top of media players disrupting movie experience. Yes there are ways to work around these annoyances but why? Why should the user work for growl when growl should work for the user? Is the user watching a movie fullscreen? Don't fraking bother me. Is there a new update? Download and install silently, don't bother me. This utility could have potential, but it's not there yet. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Dec 7 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Or you could go into the settings panel and untick "Check for updates automatically". It's no win for developers sometimes. This one has obviously tried to do us all a favour by checking for updates, which I appreciate very much. You can't please everybody so they've rightly included the option to turn this off. With this utility you have to do some customisation to get it as you like anyway so is it really that much time out of your day? You could have done it in a tenth of the time it took you to write your review. (Version 1.2) | |
 | Nov 29 2009 |
ARCHAEOGEEK Growl is basically a must have app, all has been said, as a notification framework, people have been trying to get the same working on the other major platforms. And one thing I feel must be said, because it's a big thank you to the devs, there's a tendency for deaf accessibility to be done with the "cause a seizure-inducing blink" school of thought, but this is basically the best accessibility tool in this situation to replace sound notifications, without exceptions. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Nov 10 2009 |
SHANE C SMITH Growl Mail no longer works in 10.6.2, I guess I'll have to wait for an update. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Oct 9 2009 |
CASTLE ROSE Oh come on! Tiger support Droped! Why? Not every one upgrades the the latest operating system every year. Tiger is not THAT old to drop support for it. Please make v1.2.1 Tiger compatible. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Oct 24 2009 |
LIVINGS124 If you don't keep your OS up to date, why do you need to keep your software up to date? (Version 1.2) | |
 | Oct 26 2009 |
CASTLE ROSE @LIVINGS124: Either you missed my point or you're a smart azz. Mac OS X 10.4.x 'Tiger' was released on April 29, 2005, not so long ago. Further more, the PowerBook G4 I use for my business is not supported by Mac OS 10.6.0 'Snow Leopard'. All of my Adobe products, Quark, FTP, browsers, fonts, utilities, widgets, drivers, communication programs, ect. work great as is. I have not found a compelling reason to even update to Leopard just to get some more bells and whistles I don't need. As a small business owner i have to weigh the costs and benefits of each expense. Sadly I often I find business tend to forget the SERVICE in their customer service. Of course Growl is freeware/domationware and I greatly appreciate the work they do. I just hope if there are any bugs or security issues with the Tiger version they will continue to be patched. I could go on but i hope my point is clear now. -Thanks. (Version 1.2) | |
 | Oct 26 2009 |
LIVINGS124 Supporting the OS for 4.5 years seems more than enough to me. 1.1 still works fine. Should they stop adding more advanced new features so that your old system that does not support this functionality can have a couple of not as interesting new abilities? If you do not want to upgrade your OS for new bells and whistles, then don't complain you can't update your open source software for more bells and whistles. (Version 1.2) | |
 | Nov 10 2009 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE To be frank, we have 3 developers and 1 project manager working on Growl. 1 of those is a full time student. The other is a full time developer at a prestigious mac shop. The last is a full time doctor. So we have one guy who can work on Growl for maybe 5 hours a month (doctor). Another guy who can work on Growl 10 hours a week (dev) , and the last guy can do the same (student). I can work on Growl roughly 10 hours a week as well (project manager). When considering what we could and could not support, based on the fact that the Growl project is entirely volunteer supported, we had to make judgement calls. 10.4 was released over 4 years ago. No new hardware supports it. Very few of us have a box to test on, and it makes the testing process go much longer. The testing process for 1.1 itself got extended another month due to 10.4. So just on a testing basis alone did we think about dropping 10.4. Then you have to consider maintenance of code. There is a large amount of code that we were able to remove and stop maintaining once we dropped 10.4. The ability to do this made the codebase smaller, and easier to read. Finally, it is hard to work with old API's. It is unreasonable to expect unpaid volunteers to work on something they do not want to work on. Period. I've forced people to do that before when I worked as the Project Manager of Adium. We needed Group Chat support, and I basically told one guy to do it or else. He did it, then he quit the project. People stop working on things if they are forced to do something they don't want to do. Let me put it another way. Supporting 10.4 is like supporting ie 6. You can do it, but why? For a group of people with barely a lot of time, it's not worth doing it. I hope this explanation helps. By the way, livings works on another mac app. Saying "it's not that old!" is not a good argument for either of us. We both have to make judgement calls based on cold hard fact and not emotion. I simply don't have the resources to support 10.4 at the prefpane and extras level, and I'm sure the argument to livings doesn't really shine through compared to resources either. Open source projects are supposed to be fun. Threads like this make it not fun. Come up with a better argument for 10.4 support that addresses all my points and more and we'd maybe rethink it, but currently 10.4 support for the prefpane and extras is gone and won't be returning. I hope this helps you understand our reasoning. | |
 | Oct 1 2009 |
FLOMET This applies to Snow Leopard I use Firefox as my default browser and when I installed Growl v1.2 I found that when I click on a link in mail it opens Firefox but does not focus on the window, I do not have this problem when using Safari as the dafault browser. This is just a small bug but others might have this with SL (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Oct 1 2009 |
LIVINGS124 This is a result of Firefox building in an old version of Growl. (Version 1.2) | |
 | Sep 29 2009 |
PENGUIRL Growl just popped up an alert that there is a new version available, however I run 10.4 and the new version requires 10.5. I caught it after downloading but before installing but other's might end up having to go back and reinstall an older version. It would be nice if it checked compatibility before alerting the user to a new version, I've now disabled automatic update checking since it's not likely they'll be updating the Tiger version anymore. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Sep 29 2009 |
CHUCKK Yea, they should be more careful. But on the other hand, the installer for this version is smart enough to recognize the OS and it will not all you to install if you are running Tiger (well at least it did that on my machine). (Version 1.2) | |
 | Sep 30 2009 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE The updater really isn't very good right now, agreed. We're currently switching to sparkle at the moment which will take care of that. Sorry about the problem, not much we can do about it at this time though. (Version 1.2) | |
 | Sep 29 2009 |
MARK EVERITT Growl, as ever, is great! I was a bit lost without it on Leopard! I find it especially useful for incoming mail. (Version 1.2) | |
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 | Sep 23 2009 |
ROBBY.IS.ON "Report bugs here" also links to the disk image. (Version 1.16) | |
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 | Aug 8 2009 |
ROGERMCILMOYLE The only way I have found to make this GrowlMail install on Leopard is to use the command line installer -pkg ./GrowlMail-Leopard.mpkg -target / Otherwise it just sat at the screen where I could click on "Just for Me" but never get the continue to enable. It worked perfect after this... (Version 1.1.6) | |
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 | Jul 31 2009 |
Made it work on Safari 4" The bug is still there, Safari still hangs when GrowlSafari is installed ! It worked well in the beta, so what did they do ??? And the bug with GrowlMail notifications not appearing is not corrected yet. (Version 1.1.6) | |
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 | Jul 31 2009 |
NEUTRALZONE You might want to check your installation for outdated Growl components lying around. I have Safari 4 and I run GrowlMail and Growl 1.1.6 seems to be working great. I definitely get my mail and Safari notifications. I just saw my Growl notifier for a new message, and I also just saw a Download Complete notifier for Safari. (Version 1.1.6) | |
 | Jul 30 2009 |
MIKELAMBRELLIS The Growl website (http://growl.info) appears to be timing out. Can't download. Are there any mirrors? (Version 1.1.6) | |
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 | Jul 30 2009 |
ICONZ113 nah I dont think so, I think everyone is just bum-rushing the site for the update. (Version 1.1.6) | |
 | Jul 30 2009 |
MIKELAMBRELLIS I was able to download it from CNet: http://download.cnet.com/Growl/3000-18487_4-11090698.html The Growl.info site is still timing out. (Version 1.1.6) | |
 | Jun 18 2009 |
STEVE R I tried Growl a few years ago (it seems) and wasn't too impressed with it, for what my needs were then. Now I've been using it for more than a year and I'm liking it. I upgraded to Safari 4 beta -- for about 10 minutes before trashing it, and have yet to upgrade to Safari 4 release. I like the app so much I recommend it to my friends. (Version 1.1.5) | |
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 | Jun 16 2009 |
GORDON142 I can't seem to get growlmail to install. The installer asks "how I want to install the software", with the only option being "for me only." Even after selecting this option, the continue button is still greyed out. (Version 1.1.5) | |
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 | Jun 1 2009 |
ARCHMISSION Growl has gotten extremely buggy. I finally had to remove it since it constantly crashes my mail program. Mail even has recognized that it is causing the crashes and identifies that it caused the crashes. While I love the idea of the notifications, the program has gotten to the point that it is not useable anymore. What concerns me is that as Snow Leopard comes closer to being released, I am wondering if this software will be able to be used with the new operating system and how long will it take to develop it much less fix it for the current problems that has arisen. (Version 1.1.4) | |
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 | May 2 2009 |
BIKEHAM Growl 1.1.4 GrowlMail has some issues with Safari 4 beta. http://www.safari4beta.com/2009/02/safari-4-beta-and-growl-mail.html I have been waiting for a proper fix for a while now. (Version 1.1.4) | |
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 | Jul 19 2009 |
BIKEHAM GrowlMail works now! (Version 1.1.5) | |
 | Nov 24 2008 |
STAGNENT MIND Growl in 10.4.11 no longer stays in the Menu Bar up top there is that little Claw next to the clock if i want to see it there every time i restart i have to open system preferences and click on growl to see it in the menu bar... dose anyone else have this problem ??? Im hopeing there wil be a newer version of Growl for 10.4 that fixes this and it will not be left this way... (Version 1.1.4) | |
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 | Jul 29 2008 |
ZO219 My god that claw is hideous ... and distracting besides. Is everyone on the Growl team an adolescent male? Major clue. (Version 1.1.4) | |
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 | Jan 20 2009 |
CASTLE ROSE Actually we're little pussy-cats. The little paw print is sooo cute in the menubar. | |
 | Jul 1 2008 |
HENDO It fails to mount. Just says unknown error occured. Running 10.5.2 (Version 1.1.4) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
BLOOBIE GrowlSafari does not work anymore with Safari 3.1.1 running under OS X 10.5.3. I also had the same issue as a previous poster where the installer failed on the first try but worked successfully on the 2nd. Weird. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 8 2008 |
LEOOFBORG GrowlSafari's file permissions are not properly set in /Library/Inputmanagers/ See my post in the Growl forums here: http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=17511#p106261 (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Jun 8 2008 |
BLOOBIE Awesome! That fixed it. Thanks! (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Jun 18 2008 |
SJK This and the previous version of GrowlSafari haven't worked for me on 10.4.11. Haven't tried on Leopard yet. (Version 1.1.4) | |
 | Jun 7 2008 |
ISKIPPY After updating Growl and reinstalling GrowlMail, I found it still wasn't coming up in the Mail preferences. I removed it and tried installing again, and still wound up nowhere. A tip I found on the Growl forums got it working though. If you've installed GrowlMail and it isn't appearing in Mail's preferences window, open the Terminal and paste in this command: defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES That should re-enable GrowlMail. At least, it did for me. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
SJK Try the forum for support: http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewforum.php?f=6 (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
AERGERN Well, I'm not sure this version works right with Leopard either. It does display new mail notifications but it displays them on the desktop the mail app is open on. If I'm on a different desktop I do not see anything. It appears to still be broken. I even trashed my prefs file and anything related to previous versions of Growl. If anyone has a tip to get it to work correctly.. please respond here. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
GERMANO60 First time I tried installing this 1.1.13 on my iMac G5, OS 10.5.3 it didn't suceed (the installer exits with a message "impossible to install Growl on this computer"). I retried a few seconds after and this time apparently the installation succeeded. Is it normal? What could have happened? (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
MACSOLU Still says it's version 1.1.2 in the "About" section within the Preference Pane. Yes, I rebooted before checking this. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 13 2008 |
XARIK This is because there is a Growl.prefPane installed in ~/Library/PreferencePanes which is causing a version conflict. If you delete that and restart Growl, it should show as 1.1.3. Just to be safe, though, I would suggest reinstalling Growl 1.1.3 after deleting the old prefpane so that there won't be the risk of further conflicts. (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Jun 6 2008 |
MDOGNRDOG Every Mac should have Growl. Like Quicksilver, it's one of those apps that's free, fundamentally Mac-like, and yet somehow transformative of the user experience. Download it without a second thought. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 6 2008 |
LUCA_P It seems I can't have GrowlMail back... I tried weeks ago installing betas without success, I installed the final version today but I don't have the GrowlMail tab in Mail's preferences nor I have any notification in Mail. I checked Growl's prefpane to see if GrowlMail was enabled, and it was. Please give me back GrowlMail :) (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 7 2008 |
MISTERSQUID Try reinstalling GrowlMail from the extras folder. (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Jun 7 2008 |
NEUTRALZONE I found the answer at the Growl official forums. The GrowlMail installer is skipping a step that puts it into the Mail preferences, so even if you run the GrowlMail installer AND enable it in Growl, it still might not show up (so the previous comment doesn't necessarily fix the problem). A workaround mentioned in the forums is to download Widemail (available here at MacUpdate) and install it. Doing so also reveals the GrowlMail prefs in Mail. If you don't care to use Widemail at this point, you can go ahead and uninstall it and GrowlMail prefs will remain. (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Jun 6 2008 |
SYR WULLAM This is a must have app and it's great to see it's alive and kicking. Huge thanks to the developers for their commitment and hard work. (Version 1.1.3) | |
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 | Jun 6 2008 |
MEEGO Yay! (Version 1.1.3) | |
 | Feb 26 2008 |
DKNELL There seems to be a lot of comments about the site going down and the inability of getting updates through the app... I can't even get to the site to download the app. Is this application going the way of Quicksilver - to the blackhole of abandonded indy Mac apps? (Version 1.1.2) | |
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 | Feb 26 2008 |
CASTLE ROSE Why does the Growl website go down erratically? I have my growl set up to automatically call home to check for updates but when the site is down it crashes my system prefs. I hope they fix things with there system provider. Grrrrrrowl. (Version 1.1.2) | |
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 | Feb 12 2008 |
KUKKIS Growl Mail is no longer working in OS X 10.5.2. It was actually automatically disabled by the Apple Mail application. (Version 1.1.2) | |
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 | Feb 12 2008 |
UNIXFAN http://growl.info/files/beta/Growl-1.1.3b2.dmg (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Feb 13 2008 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE It's definitely a beta, not for the general public, so your milleage may vary and all of that. (Version 1.1.2) | |
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 | Nov 4 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN You should report this to the developer at the developer's site. (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 5 2007 |
DONMONTALVO Make sure you add the Growl plugins that are included in the installer DMG...out of the box Mail won't notify. Works fine for me. Don Montalvo, NYC (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 5 2007 |
KRAIZED I'm finding the GrowlMail.bundle breaks Leopard's Mail. It launches and retrieves mail OK but Mail doesn't respond to mouse clicks and has to be force-quit. (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 8 2007 |
DOC RENAUD Everything OK here... (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Dec 1 2007 |
SMPDIGITAL 10.5.1 Leopard and growl 1.1.2 doesn't work for me neither, I've tried changing settings and reinstalling plugins, but mail.app rejects them (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 3 2007 |
DMU Why are apps ambiguous about Leopard support? It's out there in the wild, there is no reason that every new release of an app does not explain that it is "Leopard Ready" or "Not Leopard Ready." The release notes say nothing, and this page says nothing. (Version 1.1.2) | |
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 | Nov 3 2007 |
IGAUCHO Growl works just fine under Leopard. Even though the new release does not yet have the release notes available, there should be no problem at all. (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 3 2007 |
CHRISTEFANO MacUpdate is not the best place to mention this (try http://growl.info/contact.php). You can see the current Leopard compatibility status at http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?t=15349 (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Nov 3 2007 |
DMU Thanks! (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Jan 10 2008 |
KWKISTLER Whats the deal with "Growl" the website shows the root directory only at http://growl.info/ are they done developing this Freeware? (Version 1.1.2) | |
 | Oct 9 2007 |
IVANOVITCH I mistakenly attributed a complaint to the developers of Growl, when I should have checked more thoroughly: OmniGrowl is the culprit, using the Growl framework. I apologise to the developers of Growl unreservedly. It's a great piece of FREE software, and works as advertised, with no fuss or bother. (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Oct 9 2007 |
WOODEN BRAIN CONCEPTS I addressed my response to your complaint on the OmniGrowl page before I saw that this had apparently been a persistent issue for you. You do realize the infrequent nags do say OmniGrowl and you would have had to have installed it yourself. Furthermore any notification can be turned off -- including the nags. The documentation included with OmniGrowl states this, as does the welcome message. No offense, but before you complain in public fora about software, it would be nice if you took the trouble to have a look at the manuals -- or at least read carefully the messages you are complaining about. My apologies to the Growl team for the confusion generated nevertheless. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Oct 9 2007 |
IVANOVITCH Read the manuals? I'm a veteran Macintosh user - so have long lost any desire to comprehend manuals, instructions, or readme files. And any preferences interface that requires more than a simple selection is beyond my capacity, thus I conform to Steve Jobsian expectations. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Oct 13 2007 |
LEOOFBORG I'm sorry Ivanovich, but you have the worst case of PEBKAC I have ever seen. Maybe as a 'veteran user' [probably of Mac OS 9] you should RTFM and then post **ONE** review instead of polluting the reviews with excessive noise. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Oct 13 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Sorry about these others ivanovitch, they don't represent Growl. There's not much we can do, the developer of that product wants to use Growl as a way to push for registrations. Growl is a generic notification system, i.e., anyone can send anything. I'm sorry about the problem. I agree with you about the documentation needing to be supplementary, and not required reading. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Oct 7 2007 |
IVANOVITCH Okay: I'll reinstall (removed it entirely yesterday) and post a screenshot soon. Then perhaps I can have an explanation of how I get growl notifications (dismissible, as are all other notifications) of the number of people who have downloaded the software (in the thousands) and the number of donations (which was zero), and how I can remove this nag message by donating. (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 21 2007 |
STEVEN JAY COHEN The fix for the problem with Mail.app can be found here: http://www.davidroessli.com/logs/2007/01/getting_growlmail_to_work/ (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 22 2007 |
DOC RENAUD I still have a genericl icon for Mail in growl app list, but i'm able to configure now, and it seems to work anyway. Thanks for the tip :-) (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 16 2007 |
DOC RENAUD Doesn't works with mail. I just see a generic icon for Mail in the app list, and I can't configure. Doesn't get notification when new mail arrive.... And yes, I installed GrowlMail. (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 14 2007 |
ADFASDFASDFASDF I wonder why it doesn't work with Mail.app. Mail doesn't appear within the apps list - and Growl doesn't show new emails. :-/ (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 14 2007 |
JAMUS Great app. Especially when combined with "Hardware Growler" for drive mount/unmount notifications. (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 14 2007 |
UNUSUAL FALL Why do I get growlMail notifications on my home computer for IMAP email that I've already read on my work computer? Quite annoying to see them all over again... Am I doing something wrong? (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
JON & KAREN HEAL I wonder if someone would be good enough to contribute a more attractive icon. Maybe a kitten actin all fierce, or something. (Version 1.1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
VERYCARLA IF you don't like it, why not just replace it on your copy? I use Growl all the time but I never see the icon because it's only in the control panels. Is the THOUGHT of the claw so offensive to you that its mere EXISTENCE causes you grief? Why not just smile, say, "Thanks for the really useful FREE software!" and leave it at that? (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 13 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER Excellent update. Yes, the music video alert is a little on the slow side. But, the memory leak is gone. Growl used to eat up around 80MB, now it's hovering right around 24MB. Great job. Thank you! (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
Should fix up the slowness with mv stuff (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 13 2007 |
MUDFLAPPER Yep, that did the trick. Music Video is now the speed it used to be. | |
 | Sep 12 2007 |
ZO219 Did they get rid of the stupid claw yet. Not all of us are fourteen-year-old boys. Just a thought. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE How does a claw relate to children? How is the claw "stupid"? (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 13 2007 |
VERYCARLA Hey, at least he didn't say it was "hideous". Some people... You could give people like this the moon and they'd only complain that it was cold. Never a word of thanks. Well, *I* thank you. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 13 2007 |
ALAN i thank you, too, and many many others do, too. don't pay attention to those 'fourteen-year-old boys'. | |
 | Sep 14 2007 |
MEEGO Hey i like the claw! ^^ (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 11 2007 |
DOUG S. This may be a side-effect of the global positioning but my notifications aren't showing where they should. I have it set to display them in the top-right (I know, original, huh?) but they're showing in the middle-right of the screen. I can take a guess as to the cause of this since it's not constant. I usually use two displays, the larger one which acts as my main display is set to 1680x1050 and my MacBook Pro display is set to 1440x900. When I leave my display the main screen becomes my smaller MBP screen and that's when things start showing up in the wrong position. A little extra info to help you guys figure out the issue (assuming you need this): I know it's not a problem with the specific app doing the alerts since I get the same issue when getting alerts from Safari, YummyFTP, Adium or iChat. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
DOUG S. Yep! Great job on the quick fix! (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 9 2007 |
ZIVKO Chalk up another person not happy with the Music Video alert. At the rate it was going, I was expecting some sort of setting I could use to change it's speed. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 9 2007 |
SRP I have used Growl for a long time and love it; it has a beautiful interface, a smooth operation, and is informative, without being intrusive. Why would the previous poster - 'zx' on this site, 'dev10' on versiontracker - write the same low rated review verbatim on both sites, without an ulterior agenda for his "disappointment" with a FREE, useful app? (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 9 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Glad you like it. People are entitled to their opinions, I just need an explanation from the person as to why they don't like things in order to get them fixed, if they can be. (Version 1.1) | |
 | Sep 9 2007 |
SANTAB I'm not sure if this deserves 1.1. Rather 0.8. The Preference Pane is a Preference pain. You have to click at least a hundred times to get where you want to. This is ridicoulous. Rather stick with the 0.x version. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 9 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE You are welcome to suggest alternatives that resolve these issues: http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?p=96475#96475 (Version 1.1) | |
 | Sep 14 2007 |
SANTAB I hate to register all the time to post comments on something. Why not move to sourceforge? There I'd be willing to write becasue I have an account there. Nothing personal against you though. I really appreciate your work but I don't like it if every piece of software I want to comment on needs me to register. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 14 2007 |
Umm.. we moved away from sourceforge because they were unacceptable from a development perspective. Their support forums are inadequate, and at the time they had cvs and we were all pulling our hair out with that. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Sep 8 2007 |
BENR While Growl is one of the greatest additions I know to OS X, and one of the first things I install on a new machine, I agree with JETFIREDX below. The new notifications are way too slow. I use Music Video exclusively, and it takes a full second to crawl onto the screen now, instead of simply popping up. In spite of the undoubted improvements, this is enough of a blow to the core experience to make me downgrade to 0.7.6. Any chance of a fix? (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 8 2007 |
JETFIREDX Glad to see an update! However, it seems like all of the notifications display slower now. Fading in / Sliding in takes at least a whole second as well as fading out. With the previous version of Growl I had my notifications display for a total of a half second. The duration now applies only to the time a notification is displayed once its appearance effect is done. Even by setting the durations to 0.0 sec Music Video (Which I use by default) takes almost 3 seconds to appear, display, and slide out. Too long. Can an effect duration setting be added so it doesn't take so long to display notifications? (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 8 2007 |
ZAZZLE previous version allowed to install for the current user only and did not require admin rights. current version no longer has option and you must install as admin. (Version 1.1) | |
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 | Sep 13 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE We're avoiding an upgrade issue which would cause thousands of support requests for us. However, the prefpane will work fine in either / or ~. You can even use pacifist to extract it. (Version 1.1.1) | |
 | Mar 21 2007 |
PATDDFAN1 This is an essential tool for any mac user! it rocks, and I hope apple one day integrates a similar feature into 10.6 or 10.5! Also, I hope that there will be integration with Fire, Cabos, firefox, cabos, and software update in the future, and please update support for iChat as it no longer does anything! they need more customizations though! :) (Version 0.7.6) | |
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 | Feb 11 2007 |
NICOLASD hmm... if only there was a way... some method of slowing down my machine with resource intensive eye candy that ALSO interrupted my work more frequently! why oh why won't someone answer this overwhelming need? | |
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 | Mar 27 2007 |
ZO219 Gee, I think if you would just take a look at the fine app above ... there are some especially hideous customizations available, and, wow, you can make them *sticky*! (Best review of '07!) (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Jan 2 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE So basically there's a few reasons that could cause this. Most of the time it's because you are using a display style which is based on Webkit. Which display style(s) were you using? (Version 0.7.6) | |
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 | Jan 2 2007 |
VERYCARLA I've used growl for well over a year and have not experienced slowdowns as a result. Do you have any Unsanity software installed? That would be a more likely culprit in my admittedly limited experience. Also, what kind of Macs are you using? If you've got older Macs (anything running a G3 or a sub-1ghz G4) that might be the problem. In that case, you're right to uninstall. Growl is neat, but not really NECESSARY. :) (Version 0.7.6) | |
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 | Jan 2 2007 |
VEGGIEDUDE I use both Growl and Unsanity numerous haxes and I do not see any noticeable slow down. (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Jan 2 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Assuming it's haxies is probably a poor thing to do as a first troubleshooting step. (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Jan 2 2007 |
ROBERTS2424 Growl was uninstalled from our computers because it considerably slowed down the machines. (Version 0.7.6) | |
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 | Jan 2 2007 |
SAJDAK70 I downloaded latest version of Growl 0.7.6, but when dmg opens I see version 0.7.5. :-O I tried to install it, but the version still remains... Is anybody else with the same problem? (Version 0.7.6) | |
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 | Jan 2 2007 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN Yes, the downloaded version is 0.7.5 according to GetInfo... contacting the developer (directly via email) in these sorts of instances is the best thing to do. (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Jan 2 2007 |
SAJDAK70 Thanks for information. After closing and opening system preferences, there is current (correct) version of Growl visible in Growl pane. Interesting. It happened to me for the first time in times I use Growl. (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Jan 2 2007 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE Ya, I messed up and forgot to update the stupid background for the dmg. It's 0.7.6. Your system prefs where it says version says 0.7.5 because system prefs, upon installing, won't stop the currently running GrowlHelperApp. This causes it to display that, there's nothing we can do about it. Stop and start Growl, restart sysprefs and it'll be the new version. (Version 0.7.6) | |
 | Nov 30 2006 |
ARGLBORPS You forgot to recompile this one as a Universal app it is still PPC code: ~/Library/PreferencePanes/Growl.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GrowlHelperApp.app/Contents/Library/Spotlight/GrowlImporter.mdimporter Thanks for this great utitility and I hope ALL of Growl will be Universal with the next update :-) (Version 0.7.4) | |
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 | Mar 9 2006 |
WHYATT THRASH Growl is one of those features that should come preinstalled on OS X. It feels wrong to even rate it, since it's such an indispensible part of the system. (Version 0.7.4) | |
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 | Feb 22 2006 |
CATIZIRTOB Have downloaded the latest growl. Looks good, but when in prefs/ display options I can't see how to move the "window displays" from top right. I tried a combination of keys(and drag) without luck. The docs show a kind of blue rectangle with dots in corners. I guess that is to relocate display window. But that is not in my verions of growl. | |
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 | Sep 14 2006 |
PLAID COW SOLUTIONS It is not possible (with the current version of growl) to change the positioning of the alert windows. Each display style has its own positioning choices, and they cannot be changed. This is one of the main new features in the next version of growl that will be coming out. (Version 0.7.4) | |
 | Oct 18 2005 |
RICHARD TAYTOR I think Growl is a good thing. However, it appears to have an unnecessarily large memory footprint. (Version 0.7.2) | |
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 | Dec 25 2005 |
CHRISTOPHER FORSYTHE We're working to fix this for the .8 release, or at least where we can. (Version 0.7.3) | |
 | Aug 21 2005 |
CHARLES SCHOENFELD Tip for Growl users: Use the freeware application "Dockless," also found here on MacUpdate, to make the included HardwareGrowler extra run without a dock icon. (Version 0.7.2) | |
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 | Aug 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS (im not the developer) if your upgrading growl from a previous version, run the uninstaller first and then double click the pref pane. i installed the pref pane without uninstalling and despite loading the new pref pane it reckoned it was still 0.7. uninstalling and reinstalling solved this and it works perfectly (Version 0.7.2) | |
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 | Aug 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The problem with that is you have to quit System Preferences and when you open again you will see the new version. (Version 0.7.2) | |
 | Jul 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS any chance we could see the ability to combine types of notifications so that i can have an on screen notification AND an email sent at the same time? (Version 0.7) | |
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 | Aug 3 2005 |
CHRIS What you are describing happens with every display except bezel and music video. (Version 0.7) | |
 | Aug 10 2005 |
ANONYMOUS ah thats a pain, i only use music video for all my notifications! just out of interest why is this? (Version 0.7) | |
 | Aug 11 2005 |
CHRIS Oh bah, I read that wrong. So you want notifications to be sent via email and also to have on screen stuff at the same time? Mind if we take this to the forums? I don't monitor macupdate too much because it doesn't tell me via email when someone responds. If so, http://forums.cocoaforge.com (Version 0.7) | |
 | Jul 21 2005 |
MEATMCGUFFIN perfect except for notifications not appearing/dissapearing when expose is invoked. sort this and ill love ya come to think of it you should have a chat with the salling.com guy and see if you can get growl to send notifications to a pda or mobile, sort of like a secondary display. Walking around with a mobile phone that keeps you up to date with a list of the last few notifications? drool..... (Version 0.7) | |
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 | Jun 21 2005 |
ANONYMOUS How do I go about uninstalling Growl?? | |
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 | Aug 20 2005 |
ANONYMOUS search growl in yor computer and thash the files. (Version 0.7.2) | |
 | Jun 13 2005 |
TOURNESOL The functions are ok, but the RAM consumption is not! It uses more than 30Mb of physical ram just to have Growl running in the background. Damn! (Version 0.7) | |
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 | Aug 3 2005 |
CHRIS I've never seen this happening, what in the world are you doing to cause this? (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The prefpane does not load. First click on growl icon shows "loading growl" in the titlebar of system prefs (no growl prefpane is shown) and second click after waiting some time shows a blank window. Upgraded to 0.7 by replacing the old 0.6.2 prefpane. This did not work, so I uninstalled growl completely and copied the new prefpane to its location. Still no luck. Can anyone help? (Version 0.7) | |
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 | May 26 2005 |
MAC-ARENA THE BORED ZO we've found and fixed this issue for 0.7.1. (Version 0.7) | |
 | Jul 11 2005 |
THEHEALER Try this - helped me: a) uninstall "growl" (searching/finder) b) http://growl.info/beta Best wishes! (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS The 0.7 dmg does not contain an installer package -- just the prefpane. Is this intentional? (Version 0.7) | |
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 | May 24 2005 |
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 | May 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS You just have to double click on the pref pane and the OS will install it for you (asking first of course). (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Three cheers for Growl's developers! Installers are noxious Windows relics unworthy of the Macintosh environment. (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 24 2005 |
CHRIS Installers are actually needed for some things though. Drag and drop is nice, but kills things like frameworks for some people. In either case, we felt it better to move to just a double click of the prefpane. Glad you like it. :D (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Would be a GREAT idea to mention it, yes? :/ Might even be a good idea to update the documentation page... (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 24 2005 |
OMA How do I get GrowlMail to work in Tiger? I have copied the "GrowlMail.mailbundle" to "~/Library/Mail/Bundles" and typed the following into the terminal after quiting Mail: defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles 1 defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 2 However, I still get no notification when mail arrives? In the growl preferences, it shows GrowlMail as being activated, the growl version as being 0.7, and growl as being on. These may be the relevent bits from my growllog 2005-05-24 00:06:41.013 Mail[3080] Loaded GrowlMail 2.0 2005-05-24 00:17:49.104 GrowlMenu[3157] PlaintextPaste could not find the Edit menu. 2005-05-24 00:24:25.084 GrowlHelperApp[3163] PlaintextPaste could not find the Edit menu. 2005-05-24 00:24:25.157 GrowlHelperApp[3163] 2005-05-24 00:24:25 -0600 Growl registered 2005-05-24 00:24:25.248 GrowlHelperApp[3163] 2005-05-24 00:24:25 -0600 Growl: Application re-registered (Growl registered) - Priority 0 (Version 0.7) | |
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 | May 24 2005 |
MAC-ARENA THE BORED ZO if you disable PlaintextPaste, does it work? (Version 0.7) | |
 | May 24 2005 |
ANONYMOUS I like Growl much better Apple's Widgets. By far more useful in my book. (Version 0.7) | |
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 | May 23 2005 |
GALEN WILEY Growl is the sort of application that once you use it, you can't imagine how you went on without it. Version 0.7 continues this trend, with new, impressive styles, added functionality, and some much needed bug fixes (Apple Mail is finally fixed!). Bravo. (Version 0.7) | |
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 | May 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS GrowlMail needs to be updated to the new Mail 2.0.1 (730). (Version 0.6.2) | |
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 | May 19 2005 |
CHRIS We're currently beta testing Growl, and should have a release soon to resolve these issues. (Version 0.6.2) | |
 | May 2 2005 |
ANONYMOUS is this tiger compatable? (Version 0.6.2) | |
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 | May 2 2005 |
CHRIS Ya, the only problem you may have is with GrowlMail. (Version 0.6.2) | |
 | May 2 2005 |
DANA SUTTON Okay, what does Growl do? Let me give you a specific example. I have always wanted a FTP client that could do pre-scheduled uploads just like a file-synch app. Okay, Yummy came along, that works just fine. But I also wanted the FTP client to have the same kind of notification that ChronoSynch has, where it it can be set to send me an e-mail log of each upload so I can see at a glance whether it succeeded or not. Yummy didn't have any such feature until in its most recent version it was made Growl-friendly. Now Growl can send me a e-mail logging the results of th upload. That's the sort of thing notification is about, where you can find out whether a given app. has done what you want it to do. But on the basis of my example, notice this too. Growl is not "universal" in the sense that it does not work with any app., but just with ones which have been written so as to interact with it (a list is given on the Growl web page). I think this is a terrific technology, I hope that it catches on and that more software authors become aware of its potential. (Version 0.6.2) | |
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 | May 2 2005 |
CHRIS One word of note: If an app has applescripting or some other scripting language which Growl supports in it, it's pretty easy to write a script to work with Growl as well. (Version 0.6.2) | |
 | Apr 18 2005 |
SJK Seems the GrowlSafari SIMBL plugin is incompatible with Safari 1.3 (on 10.3.9). (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Apr 29 2005 |
CHRIS This will be fixed in the Growl 0.6.2 release. Sometime this weekend :) (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 6 2005 |
DENIS DEFREYNE Growl rocks. It really does. Installing is dead easy; Growl-supporting applications can even automatically ask the user to install it. The notifications are really cool; they don't get in the way, they are small, and incredibly useful. Thank you, Growl developers. (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 5 2005 |
YEAH BABY The Austin Powers of apps--YEAH BABY! Grrrrrroooowl... I love this bloody app! (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 2 2005 |
DAVIS1 I wish the developer would spell out exactly what this software does. "Global notification system"? -- to whom? About what? For what purpose?? Even the website is vague, substituting techno-speak for clear explanation. (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 2 2005 |
CHRIS I had figured that was pretty clear. What would you have said instead? (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 3 2005 |
MAC-ARENA it says in the long description: 'allows any application to send it a notification, and then it displays it.' (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 6 2005 |
DAVIS1 No, it's not clear, and again you don't explain. A notification about what? that says what? Who is notified? Why? Simple questions that should be easy enough to answer in plain English. (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 7 2005 |
CHRIS "No, it's not clear, and again you don't explain." You didn't really explain how it wasn't clear until just now ;) "A notification about what?" Anything that is sent to Growl. That's why we said "Global" Anything that an application sends to Growl. Because some people need more than just a dock bounce. The about page on the website already covers this. I'd really like your feedback, but not the negativity that you are carrying along with it here (maybe I'm just reading it wrong, if so sorry) "Simple questions that should be easy enough to answer in plain English. " Then answer my plain english question from earlier. "What would you have said?" (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 15 2005 |
ANONYMOUS "Anything that is sent to Growl. That's why we said "Global" "Anything that an application sends to Growl." Instead of repeatedly writing "anything" why don't you give some actual EXAMPLES already?? I think that's what he's after, something concrete. I am beginning to sense his frustration with your vagueness! (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Apr 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS well if you had actually looked at the growl website like you said you did you would have seen what growl does if you look at the picture at the top of the website you see a bunch of application logos pointing to a blue message, these messages show up in the top right hand corner(customisable look, and position) to display different things, in that case what song itunes has just changed to. these work for many applications like mail(when you get a new email etc...), adium(new messages etc...), safari(download complete, download unziped etc..), check out http://growl.info/applications.php for a complete list of applications with growl support i use growl and i love it... i wouldnt have a clue whats going with my computer without them if this isnt a good enough description well i dont know what you want (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS meeeee-OOOOOOW! (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 1 2005 |
I DIG ROCK N ROCK MUSIC I dig Growl. My only wish is that more apps worked with it! (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 1 2005 |
EJI My first few days with Growl have been disappointing, to say the least. 0.6 doesn't recognize some supposedly Growl-enabled apps on my iBook (G3/500; 10.3.8), such as Quicksilver (with the appropriate plug-in) and Adium. Monolingual, on the other hand, was fine. This issue isn't prevalent across the board, but I did see other users on the Growl forums encountered the same problems. The included Entourage scripts aren't as practical as the app's built-in notification, and aren't consistent and automated like SafariGrowl is with downloads. iCalEvents annoyingly launches iCal to gather the data, while apps like MenuCalendarClock iCal collect and display iCal data without the need to launch the app itself. 0.6.1 version checking is buggy -- it crashes System Prefs on checking. The update doesn't "stick," either, and still reads as 0.6. Because of this, installing 0.6.1 on top of 0.6.1 is possible, though its effect is as negligible as the initial 0.6-0.6.1 upgrade. Growl hasn't hit 1.0 yet, so I suppose I can't be too critical. The displayed messages, when and if they appear, are attractive and more or less customizable, but it's not quite at the stage where its utility is much more than potential. (Version 0.6.1) | |
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 | Mar 1 2005 |
Did you enable the Adium Growl plugin? You have to Get Info on Adium and check the Growl.AdiumPlugin check box in the Plugins section in order for Adium to pass its notifications to Growl. (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 1 2005 |
KEVIN BALLARD Please, file your grievances here: http://trac.growl.info/trac/ Simply go there and click New Ticket and enter the information (one ticket per bug, please). Thank you (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Mar 1 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Yes, what he said x4. (Version 0.6.1) | |
 | Feb 28 2005 |
TIAGO DIAS BUGARIN Since version 0.5 was launched I was dreaming what would come next and now I know what to expect for version 0.7: Easy support for localization. I don't even know where to look to see if it is a bunch o nib files or a powerfully simple utf-8 text file. I put my self up for translate it to Brazilian Portuguese. (crypted email below) Thats what I miss at the very first 0.6 moment. Also: - Diferent configuration for each application of the same notification style so that smoke could look diferent with Mail and Safari. - iTunesGrowl making it to appear (especially w/ Music Video) close to the end of the song. Some configuration here would be good for the ones that don't like it or prefer just at the end. - Where a progress is the matter (i.e. Safari download or AdiumX send/receive file) the ability to stick a notification showing the progress graphically and/or textualy. (Here you see that it would be great to have the same notification style behaving diferently with diferent apps) Well, It is such a great app I would like to have it bundled with my OS X install disks so I do not have to remember to install it. :) (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
ISKIPPY Absolutely amazing utility! Ever since the first public releases, I've been searching out Growl-compatible apps and using them in place of older apps I used to use. The new styles look wonderful, and I like the addition of colour to the Bubbles scheme to allow me to colour-code my alerts. Only a few little niggles. With the Music Video scheme, once I set the opacity to anything other than 0%, it wouldn't let me go under 20%. Not a big deal, as I've got it set up for 50% or so now for GrowlTunes notifications, but it'd be nice to do. Also, in the Music Video scheme, it'd be nice to have an intermediate size between regular and huge; maybe a whole bunch of user-selectable sizes in a pop-up menu or chosen via a slider control would be neat. All in all, I'm looking forward to seeing what you folks have cooked up for the next version, and I'm continuing to look for new utilities to take advantage of this great system! (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Really, I thought it was pretty good. Kudos for not making another iApp, too! (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS d'oh, I didn't enter a "review type", so it made me do that... it ended up posting as a comment instead of a reply to the previous statement... (Version 0.6) | |
 | Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Despite its super lame icon and logo, this app is a must have for Mac users. (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
CHRIS What's lame about the icon? (Version 0.6) | |
 | Feb 28 2005 |
ANONYMOUS With the previous version of Growl, I said "amazing !". With this one, I say "AMAZING !!!!! o_O". Keep going guys ! ^_^ (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
SEAN This is one the best OS X applications I've ever used! 0.6 was well worth the wait. The new "Music Video" style is great. (Version 0.6) | |
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 | Jan 10 2005 |
JAMES Could Somebody Please Explain to Me how to get this App working. When I go to the applications part of the preferences it is blank. I read the documentation on their site and it didn't helo. So how do i get this app working because it looks good if I could only figure it out. Could someone please help me. (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Feb 28 2005 |
KEVIN BALLARD It doesn't do anything by itself. You have to run an application that uses Growl. Once you do that, the application should show up in the Applications tab. If you want some help with this, go to - that's a list of all known applications that work with Growl (known to the Growl development team, that is). (Version 0.6) | |
 | Feb 28 2005 |
KEVIN BALLARD Ok, lets try this again. First URL: http://growl.info/applications.php http://growl.info/documentation/growl-registration-information.php (Version 0.6) | |
 | Feb 28 2005 |
ENCRO You need to obtain some applications that use Growl to display notifications, then they will automatically register in the prefPane. http://growl.info/applications.php (Version 0.6) | |
 | Sep 18 2004 |
AMON-RE Growl is awesome. Period. (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Sep 18 2004 |
PROFAD After so many 5-stars around, I hate to admit I do not have the finest idea what is going on. The problem is presumably my lower than average IQ. It goes like this: One must first manually collect (and assemble) various Growl pieces floating around, e.g. another separate 4k GrowlNotify command is on its way. Then one better manually activate the software via the Terminal. Then it remains to persuade various applications (quite few at the moment) to cooperate. And after all this let me pose the ultimate question: what is supposed to happen? And, yes, it is free, so how dare I complain? (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Sep 18 2004 |
MAC-ARENA you don't have to use the Terminal to use Growl, only growlnotify. Growl is a global notifications system: applications can use it to bring you information without being the frontmost application. several GUI applications already use Growl, including Adium, Fire, and Quicksilver. Adium will come with a Growl plug-in, and the plug-in for Quicksilver is available from their website. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 18 2004 |
NOT_ASSOCIATED_WITH_GROWL Because you are an idiot, you don't realize that stars are given when you understand and use the product. Growl is for developers, and since you are not one, I am assuming from you comments, you don't have to review the product. Go to Growl's website, read, understand, use, and then rate the product. Don't display your ignorance. Btw, I am not a Growl developer, I am not paid by them, I am not their spokesperson. Re. Growl, great job guys. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 18 2004 |
THE_TICK Now now, that wasn't nice. Basically, there are only a few apps using Growl right now, but the hope is that many others will implement Growl. We'll have some documentation up on the website later today to explain this all. Thanks for the feedback, this is something we missed. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 18 2004 |
MAC-ARENA Growl is for users. we need developers to adopt it, but Growl exists for the benefit of everyone. admittedly, we don't have enough user documentation yet, but we're working on it. users: please feel free to use Growl and read its documentation and give us feedback, and tell us what we need and what we need to change. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 19 2004 |
Thanks for the developer's replys, and special thanks to the not_associated_with_Growl teacher for his pedagogical piece of education. Apparently, I am not the only confused guy around. I saw a list of people in VersionTracker complaing that they simply can't figure this software out. This is reflected by my reduced number of stars. From your own replys It is not even clear if it is for users (like me) or developers. In fact, I saw two sentences claiming the opposite. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 20 2004 |
MAC-ARENA it's really for both users and developers. users get all (ideally) of their notifications in a uniform, customisable appearance. developers get to avoid having to hack BezelServices or write their own notification system - they just call Growl, and it does the heavy lifting for them. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Nov 29 2004 |
CLYTIE I can't see what the problem is supposed to be. It's simple, convenient and well done. It saves me time. Big thanks to Michael Tsai, developer of SpamSieve, for pointing me to Growl. :) from Clytie (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 18 2004 |
ANDREAS I'd like to get at some API documentation without having to install Subversion ... (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Sep 18 2004 |
ANONYMOUS From the downloads page, there is a source download. This includes everything in the repo as of this morning I think. http://growl.info/files/growlsource.tgz (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 19 2004 |
ANDREAS Thanks. Still, source is good, but I'd like some documentation that gives me an overview of what is possible and how to achieve it. Maybe I'll look into some of the examples later. (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 17 2004 |
I have been using it for awhile now and could not live without those pretty bubbles :D (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Sep 17 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Excellent work. It'd be nice to be able to put the display anywhere (drag a proxy around like Synergy). That and more styles :) is there documentation on this out there? (Version 0.5) | |
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 | Sep 17 2004 |
THE_TICK The bezel has a way to be moved around. Bubbles are going to be reworked for the next release, and bezel will follow suit. Along with smoke and the other views ;) (Version 0.5) | |
 | Sep 17 2004 |
DAJK This program is perfect... | |
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