I have the exact same problem, can open it when inside the Electrum.app and MacOS folder, and it connects then, but not when i double click the app file in applications folder,
greyed out proxy option...
anyone from the developers of this app can help ?
it all started with installing electrum 2
then uninstalled after i noticed it would not connect....instaleld 1.9.8 again, and it worked
now i am on electrum 2.0.3 same problem
using OSX 10.8.5
edit:
just tried out the terminal way:
/Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/MacOS/Electrum -v
Electrum has to be in Applications folder for that, works like a charm, not grayed out anymore
but when i close electrum and restart it by double click again, same problem
terminal reaction:
electrum directory /Users/user/.electrum
CA bundle: /Applications/Electrum.app/Contents/Resources/lib/python2.7/site-packages.zip/requests/cacert.pem not found
Audio MODEM is not found.
[OA] Initialiasing OpenAlias plugin, OA_READY is True
[Blockchain] 348124 blocks
[kirsche.emzy.de] connected
[WEST.electrum.jdubya.info] cannot resolve hostname
[electrum.no-ip.org] connected
[electrum.drollette.com] connected
[Network] sending subscriptions to electrum.drollette.com:50002:s
[erbium1.sytes.net] connected
[EAST.electrum.jdubya.info] connected
[electrum.thwg.org] connected
[electrum2.hachre.de] failed to connect [Errno 61] Connection refused
[ecdsa.net] connected
height: 348125 ecdsa.net:110:s
[rotarydialer.webhop.net] connected
wallet path /Users/user/.electrum/wallets/default_wallet
Notifying GUI