Virgin Install: Growl

first of all, didn't mean to offend anyone. just blew off some steam, sorry about that. i never installed growl; the graphical similarity made me think growl was installed along with colloquy, but it seems colloquy itself was doing it. i already e-mailed the developer and got a reply with an explanation about how to turn the notifications off. as for growl, it's definitely not for me and i wouldn't dream of installing it...

@Michael: You could also try the Growl Mail Rule AppleScript by Fraser Speirs: http://speirs.org/hacks/ With a Mail rule invoking this script, you can even specify more details about which mails should be considered and which not. Thanks Fraser!

Kellsworth, Growl is definitely in addtion to Quicksilver. They both do very different things. Quicksilver lets you do things to the system, while Growl notifies you of them. So, for example, with Quicksilver you can go to the next track in iTunes, and Growl can then display what is currently playing (and yes I know Quicksilver can do this as well, but I thought this would be a good example anyway).

Does anybody think Growl is better/worse than Quicksilver, or is it somethign that should be used in conjuction with it? I wanna know if I should bother with the download because i'm pretty happy with Quicksilver...

Michael: Try the beta, see if it works: http://growl.info/beta Remove the previous mail plugin before installing the new one. Silky, it's not for every little thing. It's for what *you* decide is important. I personally don't like knowing when people sign on and off in Adium, but I do like seeing a notification with the contents of a new im, if Adium is in the background. I also like knowing when a upload is done ftping up, but not down. That's the way we set this system up, to allow you to choose what you do and do not get notified about, instead of being notified about everything like other systems. If you are getting 7-8 notifications when getting on irc, maybe you should look into minimizing what you are allowing to actually notify. Growl is very flexible in this, it gives the user control, and you have the power to enable and disable things at will. Please look at the applications tab. Now look at it harder, and look at the system we've setup to allow for control. It's not as pretty as we would like, but it's going to get there.

I love growl but ever since tiger, I can't get the mail plugin to work at all. Terrific program, but each update doesn't make it so I can have my mail plugin work.

Silky, you can make those notifications go away automatically after a defined amount of time. And of course you can set rules for every single app and allow/deny notification for its events. You just have to configure Growl for your needs as with every useful app.

Silky, turn this notificaiton of. Decide what and how to be notified.

I hope you allow plugs when they're relevant. As a recent switcher I've put together a site of the apps that I've tried and liked since changing to the Mac six months ago. It's at http://andrewsmactips.cjb.cc/ Thanks, Andy

this "growl" is a terrible idea. basically, it pops up a little window after every insignificant system event, and you have to click it to make it go away. if i wanted an operating system that bothers me all the time for no reason, i'd use windows xp. now, every time i log on to an irc server, i have to click on 7-8 little windows with unintelligible messages to make them go away. thanks, growl!