On May 28, 2011, at 06:46:17, [email protected] wrote:
> As I understand it, I think the problem here is because growl as a 
> notification system has been designed such that everything belongs to an 
> owner (user).

Indeed, quite a few problems/requests/questions in the past year or so have 
come out of sysadmins wanting to integrate Growl into a more controlled 
networked and multiple-user environment, while Growl is designed from the 
ground up for single users. Multiple-user usage simply never occurred to us; 
the developers who designed it (I came in later) designed it for themselves.

> Should (optional) user fields be added to the protocol to allow for operation 
> in user-less environments?
> This could be pretty cool. Eg. what if a bug-tracking website could send me 
> notifications about bug changes, as it does with emails currently? PMs from 
> forums? possibilities…

This is already possible as a custom header that Growl ignores, but it would 
function only as metadata; it wouldn't be useful for authentication or 
authorization.

Adding support for usernames for those purposes in a backward-compatible way is 
much harder.

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