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Diggory Laycock · Feb 28, 2005, 07:46 AM

http://www.growl.info

Big Mac · Feb 28, 2005, 07:55 AM

Neato. Could Growl also have a Dashboard widget?

Mithras · Feb 28, 2005, 08:28 AM

Sweet. I've been using the 0.6 svn builds for awhile now; I'm curious to see what more has changed (or mostly just documentation & a cleaner install?)

I really like being able to specify different notification styles for different apps.

Millennium · Feb 28, 2005, 08:31 AM

The apps I use don't support Growl yet, but I've been watching this one. It's a wonderful idea, akin to the old Notification Services on OS9.

That said, I don't see why it would need -or even really be able to use- a Dashboard widget. Growl and Dashboard serve entirely different purposes.

Diggory Laycock · Feb 28, 2005, 08:43 AM

Mithras - If you've been building out of SVN then there's probably not much different - as you said, mostly documentation / small bug fixes etc...

Anyone whose been using the 0.5 release will find new stuff, like the Smoke and Music Video displays.

You can specify different notifications for different apps:

Or did you mean differing displays for different notifications within one app?

Big Mac · Feb 28, 2005, 11:58 PM

Originally posted by Millennium:
The apps I use don't support Growl yet, but I've been watching this one. It's a wonderful idea, akin to the old Notification Services on OS9.

That said, I don't see why it would need -or even really be able to use- a Dashboard widget. Growl and Dashboard serve entirely different purposes.

Well, I was thinking that if Growl gets popular the desktop may get inundated with app messages. I would not mind a lot of messages if they were all contained in a single widget that I could look at every so often. And perhaps then I could set Growl to place only urgent messages on the desktop.

Tick · Mar 13, 2005, 10:04 PM

Originally posted by Big Mac:
Well, I was thinking that if Growl gets popular the desktop may get inundated with app messages. I would not mind a lot of messages if they were all contained in a single widget that I could look at every so often. And perhaps then I could set Growl to place only urgent messages on the desktop.

Ya, we're aware of this possible issue. Note priority, and the ability to set displays. We'll have more control later down the road, etc, so that you will be able to stop a notification storm before it starts.

zerock · Mar 13, 2005, 11:48 PM

hiya Tick

i highly recomend this to anyone.

Sarc · Mar 15, 2005, 12:26 PM

LanOSD's capabilities should go into grown in a future version.

Tick · Mar 16, 2005, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by Sarc:
LanOSD's capabilities should go into grown in a future version.

What capabilities specifically?

Sarc · Mar 16, 2005, 11:26 PM

being able to recieve network messages and displaying them as an OnScreen alert/popup/translusent window/user defined.
kikass app. btw.

[APi]TheMan · Mar 17, 2005, 12:04 AM

Building out of svn every other day or so makes these releases pretty unexciting personally, but Growl's an awesome utility nonetheless.

Tick · Mar 17, 2005, 12:30 AM

Originally posted by Sarc:
being able to recieve network messages and displaying them as an OnScreen alert/popup/translusent window/user defined.
kikass app. btw.

Wait for .7 then.

Tick · Mar 17, 2005, 12:31 AM

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Building out of svn every other day or so makes these releases pretty unexciting personally, but Growl's an awesome utility nonetheless.

haha, ya, it does make things not as exciting/surprising, I agree. But if you need the stuff up there now it's usually worth it.

Sarc · Mar 17, 2005, 11:14 AM

Originally posted by Tick:
Wait for .7 then.

will do