Re: [ANN] Growl initial release

FROM : Brian Ganninger
DATE : Tue Oct 12 22:00:55 2004

Greetings List!

I'd just like to take a moment to second Chris' recommendation of 
Growl. Infinite Nexus recently released DriveGauge 3.2 
(www.infinitenexus.com/dg/) with Growl support and it was not only 
simple but useful and powerful with a positive response from users.

In 35 to 50 lines of code and adding the framework linking you too can 
be Growl savvy, it's not terribly tough. There are many different 
languages represented in the examples to get started with, and it's 
helpful in testing when you screw up and need to know if Growl still 
works ;-)  It's true usefulness is evidenced by the wide range of 
products that have already employed it or announced forthcoming support 
in the few short weeks it has been publicly available: IM clients, IRC 
clients, iTunes controllers, mail monitors, launchers, P2P clients, and 
many other applications for a variety of tasks. Its flexibility and 
customizability are incredible and 3 new display plugins are already 
under active development.

Instead of developing your own popup notifications take a moment to 
consider if Growl (or your own additions to Growl) can address the 
situation with that much less work and that much more finesse. That's 
just my $.02 USD, take it for what it's worth.

- Brian Ganninger
  Lead Software Engineer,
  Infinite Nexus Software

  [ software beyond limits ]

    http://www.infinitenexus.com/

On Sep 21, 2004, at 3:26 PM, Christopher Forsythe wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
>    My name is Chris, I'm project lead of The Growl Project over at 
> http://growl.info. It's a global notifications system that we are 
> trying to make useful for users and developers. So far it has Cocoa, 
> Carbon, Tcl, AppleScript, Python and Perl support, and we are 
> accepting bindings for any other language that could be useful. The 
> idea behind it is that a notification is sent from an app, through 
> distributed notifications, and if allowed in the prefpane, will be 
> displayed in a uniform and user customizable manner.
>    As this is an initial release, we don't have many display plugins 
> as of yet, but are working on those. Also, any suggestions or help is 
> appreciated. There is a discuss list over at <email_removed> if 
> anyone is interested, and I can field questions as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Forsythe
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