Download GrowlHUD for Mac - Notification design for Growl. MacUpdate.com

GrowlHUD 1.5

Your rating: Now say why...

(1) 5

Notification design for Growl. Free

Add to my Watch List
Email me when discounted

Download Now
104 KB
Visit Developer's Site
Niklas Brunberg

GrowlHUD is a subtle Growl notification style made to blend into Mac OS X and look like the Apple HUD interface found in iLife, Aperture and other applications. GrowlHUD also includes support for priorities.

What's New

Version 1.5:

Graphics tweaks to look more like Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.
No longer uses HMBlkAppKit.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Growl

Be the first to recommend a similar software title.

GrowlHUD User Discussion (Write a Review)

ver. 1.x:

(1)

Your rating: Now say why...

Overall:

(1)

sort: smiles | time

+144

gcoghill reviewed on 13 Oct 2007

Just jumping back in here to give a start rating.

Are the priority setting user-customizable? They don't show up in the Growl pref pane for me.

[Version 1.1]

4 Replies

Spot (developer) replied on 13 Oct 2007

You have to set them on a per application basis. Go to the Applications pane, double-click any application you wish to have a special priority, select the Messages pane and you can set the priority for notifications from that application.

+144

gcoghill replied on 13 Oct 2007

Ah I see. Some Growl styles allow you to tweak the color of the priorities, that's what I was thinking you were referring to with priority support.

Thanks for the info. I have no way of testing the priorities fro GrowlHUD, but I am sure they'll look great.

Spot (developer) replied on 13 Oct 2007

I see. This is a Web Kit style (little more than CSS, XHTML and graphics) and the colors for the priorities are set as graphics. To be able to control additional parameters I would have to redo this as a Cocoa (Objective-C) style.

I have been thinking about converting this to a Cocoa style because it would result in more control for users such as you and it would also mean a lower memory usage (because some issue with Growl and Web Kit styles leak a bit of memory). However, those plans are not close.

+144

gcoghill replied on 25 Nov 2007

Interesting, thanks for the info. As-is, it's still a great Growl style for basic usage. Thanks again!

+28

Jobby commented on 11 Oct 2007

Nice style - but the bright green stripe on the "low" priority makes it stand out more than the "normal" priority, and there's no way to edit the colour of these stripes... (well, not without mucking around inside the package, anyway)

It would be nice if the title could be in bold, too - it's a bit difficult to pick out in the time the notification's on screen.

[Version 1.0]

2 Replies

Spot (developer) replied on 12 Oct 2007

I have made the colors more neutral for those priorities. Not sure about making the font in the title bar bold. I want to hold it true to the Apple style and if you look at the HUS:s in iPhoto and Safari you will see that they are normal weight.

+28

Jobby replied on 12 Oct 2007

Thanks for that - I'd forgotten Apple didn't make the title bars bold. The colours look a lot better, though :)