On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2010, at 02:03:23, Cale McNulty wrote:
>> After weeks of seeing the growl notification pop up and promptly ignoring 
>> it, I finally googled it to see what it was and how I could get rid of it.  
>> I was choked that something I most certainly did not install was on my 
>> system and, far worse, bugging me to do stuff.
>>
>> Then I came to Growl's "click here if you get annoying messages and don't 
>> know why" page.  I can't say how impressed I am with your candor.  I googled 
>> thinking I had mal- or adware, and found out it was software from a company 
>> whose actions I actually respect.
>>
>> I think I'll keep it.
>
> Thank you for your kind words.
>
> Note that you'll want to uninstall the old version as well as install the new 
> version. Otherwise, you'll continue to get update notifications as long as 
> the old version is the one that's running. (It's possible to have both 
> because Dropbox installs Growl in your Library whereas our installer installs 
> it in the all-users Library.)
>
> We'd previously decided that the installer should leave the per-user Growl 
> alone for our own testing purposes (some of us run a development Growl in the 
> Home Library but may need to test the installer), but I think this needs to 
> change in the next release. At least until Dropbox knocks off installing 
> Growl, our installer will have to uninstall the per-user Growl when one is 
> present.
>

How hard is that to do?

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