Growl and Mountain Lion's Notification Center

One of the neat features of Mac OS X 10.8, Mountain Lion, is the notification center. Having all notifications is cool and when I saw Hiss, a replacement for Growl, I immediately installed it and loved it for a few minutes. However, it has one major flaw and that is it doesn't have an AppleScript dictionary so SuperDuper! gets hung up at the end of copies because it tries to send an AppleEvent to Growl and a have a script that posts notifications of new email from Outlook.

I went down the path of creating a replacement for Hiss and got the AppleScript part going, but didn't bother with the Growl part. So now I had 2 incompatible halves of a solution.

Then I started poking at the Growl source and figured that I could just write a plugin (Mountain Lion only) that posted the notifications. About 20 minutes later, my plugin was complete.

You can download my plugin here.

Unzip the file, double click it and set it as the default style. There are no configuration settings. This requires Growl 1.4 available on the Mac App Store.

This plugin comes with no warranty nor support. The next version of Growl will eliminate the need for this plugin, so you'll want to remove it when the next version of Growl comes out.

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Enjoy!

Comments

July 30th, 2012
JS

Good initiative!! what version of growl are you using? version 1.22 doesn’t seem to be compatible though, it was the last version before it got into the appstore.

July 30th, 2012
Scott Gruby

1.4 from the app store. If you don’t want to spend the $2, you can download the source and compile 1.4 yourself.

July 30th, 2012
Theo

Hi, unfortunately I don´t have a growl folder at the location you have given, any idea where I could put your file?

Thanks

July 30th, 2012
Scott Gruby

You can try double clicking the file to install it or simply create the Growl folder in your user’s application support folder.

August 5th, 2012
Burcak

Great work! Thanks a lot.

August 8th, 2012
osigge

Works great! Thank you! Are you willing to share the code? I’d like to take a look.

August 9th, 2012
Scott Gruby

I’m glad you like it! At this time, I’m not going to share the source as it isn’t very interesting. Sorry.

August 22nd, 2012
Chris

Thanks so much for this! This is a much nicer solution than the Hiss application (as nice as it’s been as a stopgap). Mixing this with application level control in growl is excellent!

September 18th, 2012
Pinto

DO NOT USE HISS.

BARK. http://barkplug.in/#

September 19th, 2012
Scott Gruby

While Bark is interesting, it modifies system files to get it to work. I haven’t tried it, yet, but I hesitate to modify the OS.