A few applications (mostly scripts) are not listed because no dedicated webpage exists for them, so the developers cannot link to them. The Growl Project maintains a section of their website with a that support Growl, either inherently or with add-ons. Growl includes bindings for developers who use the PHP, Objective-C, C, Perl, Python, Tcl, AppleScript, Java, and Ruby programming languages, and comes with multiple "display plugins," providing different styles for presenting the notifications. Users can customize the display and turn notifications on and off. Each notification provides some information, such as: "Download finished," or the name of the current iTunes track. This pane enables and disables Growl's notifications for certain applications entirely, or select specific notifications for each application.Īpplications register a "ticket" with Growl, then send arbitrary notifications which Growl receives and displays.
Growl installs itself as a preference pane added to the Mac OS X System Preferences. This allows users to fully control their notifications, application developers to spend little time creating notifications, and Growl developers to concentrate on the usability of notifications.
Applications can use Growl to display small notifications about events which the user deems important, in a consistent manner. Growl is a global notification system for the Mac OS X operating system. Caption = Growl's "General" preferences in System Preferences running on Mac OS X Leopard.ĭeveloper = The Growl team led by Christopher Forsythe