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Growl - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Beef, Belch, Bellyache, Bitch, Blat, Blubber, Boom, Bray, Breathe, Burr, Buzz, Chant, Chirp, Clash |
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 GrowlTunes using Growl Bubbles |
Growl is a global notifications system for the Mac OS X operating system. The idea has multiple avenues. Users can fully control their notifications, developers do not have to spend a lot of time developing notifications, and the Growl developers can spend time concentrating on the usability of notifications.
Below is a screenshot of the Applications tab of the Growl pane added to System Preferences (Mac OS X's global configuration application). There you can enable and disable Growl's ties to certain applications entirely, or select specific notifications for each application. Growl Application Preferences Applications register a "ticket" with Growl, then send arbitrary notifications which Growl receives and displays. Each notification provides a small amount of information to the user such as a download having finished, or iTunes having changed tracks. Users can customize the display and turn notifications on and off.
Growl includes Bindings for developers who use the programming languages Perl, Python, Tcl, Cocoa, Carbon, AppleScript, and Java, and comes with multiple "display plugins" including "Bezel" and "Bubbles", providing different styles for presenting the notifications sent.
The current version of Growl is 0.5.
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