Fantastic Fix for Colloquy and Growl
I've been using Growl for a very long time. I think it's about the most interesting new technology - with style, that I've seen in workstations in the last few years. It's really amazing. Anyway, when I started using Colloquy I was very impressed with the stability, features and style of the IRC client. I've written IRC clients for a while, and this guy is just amazingly nice. Beautiful, in fact.
But there's one issue that I've never figured out - Colloquy supports Growl, but Colloquy 2.3 and Growl 1.2 on Snow Leopard (10.6) just doesn't work well. Both Growl 1.2.1 and Colloquy 2.3 are 64-bit apps, but Colloquy is constantly showing the "Bubbles" Growl notification style - even though I changed the default style. And the notifications fall on top of other notifications. It's like Colloquy 2.3 has a parallel version of Growl. Very odd.
So this morning I did a little digging and found a posting about an error in Colloquy with regards to Growl. I'm not positive, but I think it's related to Growl 1.2.1 being beta at the time 2.3 came out, and 32-bit at that. Then I found this article and it pointed me to the nightly builds of Colloquy.
I chose the latest - Colloquy-5138.zip and BINGO! Everything is working amazingly well now. Very nice. I still have 64-bit apps, and the style is respected as well as the location of the notifications. It's like it's working the way it was meant to. Lovely.
I'm sure they'll push out a new version soon, and when they do, I'll get back on the "released" version of Colloquy, but for now, this is just fine.