{"id":242,"date":"2011-01-21T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T20:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2011-01-21T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T20:19:37","slug":"the-silent-installation-of-growl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/the-silent-installation-of-growl\/","title":{"rendered":"the silent installation of Growl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know plenty of other Mac geeks love <a href=\"http:\/\/growl.info\/\">Growl<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve never liked it. \u00a0To be more accurate, I dislike any kind of notification system; it&#8217;s just that Growl is the most visible example of it. \u00a0I find notifications to be disruptive. \u00a0I don&#8217;t mind an <a href=\"http:\/\/adium.im\/\">Adium<\/a> window appearing when I get a new instant message. \u00a0Beyond that, though, I prefer not to be interrupted from whatever I&#8217;m doing. \u00a0This isn&#8217;t to say that other people shouldn&#8217;t like Growl. \u00a0Everyone works differently. \u00a0If it works for you, I&#8217;m perfectly happy for you. \u00a0It&#8217;s just not welcome on my Macs.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Macworld published an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/154862\/2011\/01\/growl_installation.html\">the mystery of spontaneously installed Growl<\/a>. \u00a0This is one of the things that drives me crazy: other applications which install Growl without notifying me. \u00a0Adium gives me the option of installing it (and I thank them for that option), but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B003B329RA\/littlebluewor-20\">Adobe CS5<\/a> doesn&#8217;t. \u00a0This is an especially frustrating user experience, given that I did a custom installation of CS5 and so have an expectation that it shouldn&#8217;t install anything other than what I selected during that custom installation.<\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate that one of the developers for Growl said this in their interview with Macworld:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We hate it when people install software\u2014any software, including ours\u2014on other people\u2019s systems without permission.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty classy. \u00a0An official comment from Growl is a great thing, even though Growl has no way to enforce it. \u00a0It&#8217;s something that I hope that software developers take to heart. \u00a0If your software is going to install something else that&#8217;s not advertised as part of your software on my system, then you&#8217;ve got to both tell me about it and let me opt out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know plenty of other Mac geeks love Growl, but I&#8217;ve never liked it. \u00a0To be more accurate, I dislike any kind of notification system; it&#8217;s just that Growl is the most visible example of it. \u00a0I find notifications to be disruptive. \u00a0I don&#8217;t mind an Adium window appearing when I get a new instant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/21\/the-silent-installation-of-growl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">the silent installation of Growl<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}