For use with Growl
In a quest for a more subtle Max OS X-style notification design for Growl I noticed how well the HUD:s in various Apple applications (such as iPhoto editing) work. They are dark and do not steal too much attention, they look good in the system as a general and they are designed to display information.
GrowlHUD also includes support for priorities.
Installation
If you have Growl installed, double-click on the GrowlHUD icon to install the notification style.
Version history
GrowlHUD version 1.5, 2008-02-11
- Graphics tweaks to look more like Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.
- No longer uses HMBlkAppKit.
GrowlHUD version 1.3.1, 2007-11-26
- Solution for the possibly corrupted disk image in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard provided by Jim Mitchell of jimmitchell.org: Thank you!
- Solves a JavaScript problem that caused linebreaked content from some applications in Mac OS X 10.5 to add a > to the display style.
GrowlHUD version 1.3, 2007-11-26
- Solves a JavaScript problem that caused linebreaked content from some applications in Mac OS X 10.5 to add a “> ” to the display style.
GrowlHUD version 1.3, 2007-11-26
- Fix for long unbreaked words such as URL:s, torrents and file names that do not have any natural word breaks.
- A fix to place the close box directly above the close-X. Thanks to Martin Stein of excomax.de for solutions and input.
- Mac OS X 10.5 has a solution for an odd shadow behavior which occurred when the content of a notification was updated that changed the height of the notification but did not update the shadow accordingly.
GrowlHUD version 1.1, 2007-10-12
Based on user feedback this release contains fixes for:
- Padding and text size.
- A bug that prevented users from using a custom opacity.
- More neutral colors for the Low and Moderate priority graphics.
GrowlHUD version 1, 2007-10-09
First public release. This software uses image resources copyrighted by the Shiira Project, released in the HMBlkAppKit 1.1 under the BSD License.
License
This software is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0. For more information and the complete legal text, go to: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0.
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October 11th, 2007 at 10:49
fucking nice, thanx!
October 11th, 2007 at 14:15
Sweet style, something I was looking for, thx
October 11th, 2007 at 16:56
Awesome! Without a doubt the best Growl style I’ve seen.
October 12th, 2007 at 14:15
HI. I really like your concept and execution.
I just have one small suggestion, the text isn’t quite as clear/vivid as it could be. Take a look at the ‘AboveTheNight” growl display. It you could incorporate that text into GrowlHUD, i think it would look absolutely perfect. Thanks for all your work. And thanks for making growl better!
October 12th, 2007 at 14:46
Love the styles, really do - thank you for the work on them! Out of curiosity, what determines the priority level of the messages, and is there any way to toggle the displaying of the stripes for priority? Thanks again for your hard work.
October 12th, 2007 at 15:24
John says:
Thank you!
Both GrowlHUD and AboveTheNight use white Lucida Grande at the same size as font faces. Though it is probably the font smoothing in Mac OS X that combined with text-shadow in GrowlHUD highlights fewer pixels.
Stan says:
Thank you! In a few applications you can control the priority, but most of the time you have to open System Preferences › Growl and then go to the Applications pane and select your application where you want to modify priorities. Select Messages and you can see the drop down menu to set priorities.
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October 16th, 2007 at 10:55
Great. Thank you.
It’s a great style. I used to have the smoke one but this one is swell
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November 26th, 2007 at 11:29
It seems as if the dmg file is corrupt. Please check it.
November 26th, 2007 at 12:11
Mac OS X 10.4 Disk Utility tells me the .dmg file is all ok.
November 26th, 2007 at 18:44
Your disk image reports “no mountable file systems” under 10.5.1 for both systems I tried it on.
November 26th, 2007 at 19:58
growlhud.dmg is broken…can’t mount.
please check and re-release.
November 26th, 2007 at 20:33
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November 27th, 2007 at 0:12
So. It seems to be some kind of incompatibility between disk images created with Disk Utility version 10.5.8 (198.16) (this is what it says when I check it after downloading from the link above: interaktion.info/unpublished/growlhud-diskutility.png) and the Disk Utility that is in 10.5.1. Unfortunately I have no way of creating a disk image in Leopard since I am still on Tiger.
I am sorry for your inconvenience. As a temporary measure I have a zipped version with no disk image here: interaktion.info/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/growlhud.zip.
Are there any Leopard users out there willing to lend a hand in debugging the .dmg?
November 28th, 2007 at 20:22
Niklas - Contact me via email. I’d be happy to create a Leopard compatible disk image for you that will work on Tiger too.
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June 9th, 2008 at 10:35
Great theme, was just the thing i was looking for :)