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Growl Styles: NotifyOSX and NotifyOS9

In Mac on 22 August 2006 with 11 comments

I love Growl. It’s so nice to know exactly what’s happening at all times, when a download finishes, when my photos have uploaded, when my web files have uploaded, and when someone signs on and off of AIM or Jabber.

However, I don’t like any of the existing notification styles out there (with the exception of these). I wanted something that looks like it belongs in OS X, not something out of a cartoon. So in that spirit, here is the NotifyOSX style for Growl:

Notifyosx-1

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I’ve also done an OS 9 style, since OS 9 had a built-in global notification system, and I missed it’s look.



Notifyos9

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Known issue: Both styles have a little trouble when the text contains a long, unbroken url. I’m not entirely sure how to fix this, but at the moment it merely overflows to the right, pushing the notification window to the left. It’s not a big problem, it just looks funny.


11 Comments

I’ll say thanks.

Thanks. These look nice.

Posted by zerroeffect on 22 August 2006 @ 10pm

This style seems quite similar to the other options … Also is there any way to change it’s position on the screen? I have another use for the top right hand corner.

Posted by Tim Jeffries on 23 August 2006 @ 7am

Daniel, the Classic notifier look is a great idea. Thanks!

Posted by Gabriel Radic on 23 August 2006 @ 8am

niceeee :-)

Posted by kelsey on 23 August 2006 @ 9am

Great, thank’s a lot for the OS 9 style :-)

Posted by jc on 25 August 2006 @ 11am

Tim Jeffries: I think there will be a way to change positions in the next major update of Growl.

Posted by Daniel on 25 August 2006 @ 12pm

Ya, in 1.1 we’ll have positioning.

Daniel, mind if we include these in 1.1?

Posted by Chris Forsythe on 25 August 2006 @ 3pm

Sure … I’d like to try to shrink the filesize of NotifyOSX first, but that’d be very cool. Got a release date in mind? :)

Posted by Daniel on 25 August 2006 @ 3pm

Between now and 2 years from now?

Posted by Chris Forsythe on 25 August 2006 @ 3pm

Thanks for letting me know! :-D

Posted by Tim Jeffries on 27 August 2006 @ 6am

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