Hi everyone, Thanks for all your helpful comments! Weeell, not really solving the issue - but at least explaining why not. Makes me feel a little less stupid ;)
To "disable" XUL notification in TB 24 (OS X version), go to Thunderbird Preferences (General), and un-tick all boxes under "New mail" (or similar). Running the German version, so I don't know the exact terms used in the English version... but it's easy to find. Sadly, this does not really disable notifications, just makes them invisible. Neither does it bring back Growl. Yann, I tried the same - same result. Growl New Message Notification actually still communicates with TB (error message and all), but - no display of notifications :(( The thing that was soooo cool about Growl - Coming back from wherever to my desk, I could see all new e-mails at one glance - no matter how long I was away, or what was up front when I left. I could even see them from my bathroom ;) XUL notifications in TB look dry... but I could probably live with that - if they just stayed on the screen. In the OS X version of TB 24, the TB preferences window has no Options button to further control the behavior of the XUL thing. On/off, animate the dock or don't, play a sound or don't. That's it. I've seen screenshots of TB under Windows, showing an extra Options button where you can supposedly set more controls, like appearance and duration. Duration being the crucial parameter. Yes this thread should definitely continue in the Thunderbird forum... Anyways, thanks to all again - I'm smarter now ;) Alex Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2013 19:08:40 UTC+2 schrieb YR: > > Hervé Boinnard wrote on 24/10/2013 14:22 > > Hi, > Then Thunderbird 24 is not supported anymore!! What a shame! > Should I open a different thread for Thunderbird 24 and Growl 2.1.2? > > Hi, > > If you're speaking of a thread in growldiscuss, I think it's not necessary, > since this drop of support is not from Growl side, but a decision on > Thunderbird side... > Then, our discussion seems to remain "global" here, for any Growl version. > (BTW maybe opening a thread on Mozilla/Thunderbird side could help!) > > Maybe a solution would be to parse the XUL notification, but I am not > familiar enough with it to code it myself, sorry :( > > Since I have no real hope that Mozilla change their mind and bring back > Growl support, > my personal wish is that: > - we manage to make "New Mail Notification for Thunderbird" work > (seems to depend only on growlnotify correction) > - Mozilla realize that some people can really prefer a central > notification system and > they will add an option to disable built-in XUL notifications (which can > be useful for anyone) > > That would be a first satisfying situation, that seems not to be too far. > > In the future, the best would be that "all" Thunderbird notifications (and > not only "new mail") > could be trapped by the Thunderbird extension sending to Growl... > > -Yann. > > > I will try the mentioned add-on, and will be happy to test and report > back other solutions. > > Kind regards, > Hervé > > On Thursday, 24 October 2013 12:02:40 UTC+1, Alex wrote: >> >> Thanks everyone for your replies! Doesn't look too promising I suppose... >> I will still try your suggestions. >> Hm... why is it that I always have this bad feeling when clicking an >> update button :( You never know what super-annoying things are going to >> happen. >> Thanks again! >> >> Alex >> >> >> Am Mittwoch, 16. Oktober 2013 19:27:50 UTC+2 schrieb YR: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Yes, they have been discussing for a long time about removing Growl >>> support, and that's now done. >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777409 >>> >>> Now they use XUL notifications, independent from a central system like >>> Apple Notification Center, >>> or Growl, which can be a pity for people like us that enjoyed using >>> Growl. >>> >>> That's why I tried to switch back to Growl New Message Notification >>> extension for Thunderbird. >>> >>> https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/growl-new-message-notification/ >>> >>> >>> The extension appears to be still correctly working with latest release >>> of Thunderbird (24.0.1) >>> (for instance, a warning is displayed if Growlnotify is not installed.) >>> >>> But as described in another thread, >>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/growldiscuss/d6HOnnrTZeg >>> it appears not to work perfectly with the behavior of latest Growlnotify >>> version >>> that prevents from seeing the resulting display: >>> - the notification call is sent to growlnotify >>> (it is even logged in the Growl history tab AND in the Growl Roll-up) >>> - but now growlnotify seems not to correctly handle (not >>> auto-registering?) application names >>> that are not already registered before calling growlnotify >>> >>> Then the call of the extension which is the following gives no display >>> growlnotify -n "Thunderbird (add-on)" -a "Thunderbird.app" -t Test >>> "subject" -m "Author <[email protected]>" >>> >>> I opened the general thread about that topic on growldiscuss mailing >>> list (see link above), >>> but I have no answer nor solution yet. >>> >>> I hope we'll get answers and maybe solutions, >>> Regards, >>> >>> -Yann. >>> >>> >>> Christopher Forsythe wrote on 16/10/13 >>> > As far as I know Mozilla decided to remove Growl support from their >>> applications. I don't know if it's 24.0.1 that'll have it removed, but >>> that'd be my suspicion as to what happened. We fought for them to not do it >>> but ended up losing that battle. They decided they wanted their own >>> notifications likely because they are trying to ship a phone operating >>> system. >>> > >>> > I'd suggest trying to find an extension or some plugin for it. I >>> don't have any suggestions of which one, but that'd be where you would need >>> to start. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Alex <[email protected]<mailto: >>> [email protected]>> wrote: >>> > >>> > Running Growl 1.2.2 under OS X 10.6.8. Love it. Updated >>> Thunderbird today (now running version 24.0.1). Ooops - I no longer get >>> Growl notifications from Thunderbird. I do get notifications from >>> Thunderbird, staying on screen for like half a second. I want my Growl >>> back! >>> > - Re-downloaded, re-installed Growl 1.2.2. No duplicates. Result: >>> :( >>> > - Checked all Growl settings. :( >>> > - Re-started Thunderbird. :( >>> > ... 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