stigi / mountaingrowl

Growl Display Plugin for Mountain Lions Notification Center

Mountain Growl

What's this?

So you've installed Mountain Lion with the all new Notification Center. Good for you!
But what's this? All those old Growl notifications mixed with the shiny and new. Doesn't seem right, eh?

Enter Mountain Growl:

Other solutions like Hiss are okay, but a actually a weird hack with a lot of down sides. So while waiting for Growl 2 (which hopefully will support the Notification Center) why not use the current Growl with a plugin that does the necessary. All as a 1st class citizen in Growl.

Installation

• I'm assuming you've already have Growl (version 1.4 required) installed. If not you can get it from the App Store.
• Go & download the latest version of Mountain Growl from the GitHub download page.
• Double click it & Growl should take the install process from there.
• Make sure to select MountainGrowl as your default style in the Growl display settings.

Downsides

All the notifications are still sent by Growl, so they all show the Growl icon. I'm curious how Growl 2 will target that issue. Mountain Growl is showing the original application name in the subtitle though.

Upsides

The standard Growl click actions also work.

TODOs

• Add an option to switch title with subtitle
• Create a proper website (is this actually needed?)
• Collecting high fives

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mountaingrowl's Issues

Uninstall MountainGrowl

Hi there!

After updating to Growl 2.0 (and despite the fact that Growl has disabled MountainGrowl), notifications still appears under the Growl title (with the appropriate subtitle).

How could I uninstall to avoid this behaviour?

Double click install not functional?

Using growl 1.4 and Mountain Growl 0.1.1 I drag the view to my desktop from the zip file and double click on it. No obvious activities follow and growl notifications are not in the notification center.

Can the readme be expanded to indicate what to expect after double clicking and perhaps suggest a verification procedure?

Please specify a license

Hi,

you should add license details to the repository so people will know under which conditions they contribute.

Application icon is not forwarded

Problem

The icon of the origin application is not appearing in notification center. This is due to the face that the user notifications are actually send by the Growl application and not the origin application.

Possible Solutions

Dynamic applications

Create an proxy application that has the same icon as the origin application.

Private API

There's a method +[NSUserNotificationCenter _centerForBundleIdentifier:] in the class dumped headers of Foundation.framework. Maybe this can be used to change the origin of the user notification to the origin application.

With both approaches there might be issues with application sandboxing (as Growl is distributed thru the app store).