Notification Center support

[Christopher Forsythe]

Also, if any adium developers would like to be on the Growl developer beta
list, please let me know (email me directly).

Chris

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Forsythe <chris at growl.info>wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adium.im> wrote:
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>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:32:17, Paul Wilde wrote:
>> > I'm a bit hesitate on relying on Growl framework, as from what I gather
>> this would make notifications grouped under Growl, which would raise
>> question marks for users who haven't bought Growl and don't know what it is.
>>
>> My understanding is that notifications are only listed as from Growl if
>> they went through Growl, which only happens if Growl is installed. Users
>> who haven't bought Growl would continue to see them as directly from Adium.
>>
>> Chris, do I have this right?
>>
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>>
> Luckily I resubscribed to this list today. :)
>
> So there was an email earlier today between a few people on this same
> subject, and I'm going to take an excerpt from that email and paste it
> here. It should address pretty much all of the questions you guys are
> having, but if you have anymore just reply. Anyhow, here's the big overview:
>
> 1) The framework basically has a 'send to notification center' flag.  If
> Growl is not running, this flag is true.  Alternatively, if Growl *is*
> running, the framework will be told whether or not the big 'Use OS X
> Notifications' switch is flipped, and the flag set from that.
>
> 2) If this flag is set to true, when the app generates a Growl
> notification, the notification will also be packaged up and sent to
> Notification Center.  Since the app is sending the notification itself, it
> appears with the appropriate app icon and title.  If Growl is running, the
> notification is also sent to Growl with a special GNTP header field set, to
> mark that it's already been shown.  Growl will then handle any
> automation/actions necessary, but won't do the visual displays.
>
> 3) If the flag is set to false, notifications go to Growl as normal,
> without the 'do not display this visually' GNTP header.
>
> 4) If Growl receives a notification without the 'do not display this
> visually' bit set — such as from a legacy version of the framework — while
> the 'Use OS X Notifications' switch is flipped to true, then it will pass
> the notification on to Notification Center itself.  The downside here is
> that the notification will be sent by Growl rather than the host app, and
> thus will have the Growl icon and title, though the subtitle portion is
> used to label which app made it.  On the upside, it means legacy Growl
> notifications can appear in Notification Center.
>
> In either case, Growl notifications passed to Notification Center are left
> up for two minutes and then expired; this emulates Growl notifications
> fading away and avoids cluttering Notification Center with 8 billion little
> status notifications.  If the 'sticky' bit is set, of course, the
> notification is not expired.
>
> In essence, you just write notifications like normal, and then things Just
> Work.  If the user has Growl installed, it uses their visual display or
> uses Notification Center, as per the user's preferences.  If the user does
> not have Growl installed and is on Mountain Lion, it uses Notification
> Center.  If the user does not have Growl installed and is on Lion or Snow
> Leopard, it uses the framework's built-in 'Mist' system.
>
>
> --
> Chris Forsythe
> @The_Tick <http://twitter.com/The_Tick>
>
>


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Chris Forsythe
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