Freebie - Growl notification style

Freebie - Growl notification style

Preview of Glossy growl style

A while ago I decided to have a go at making a Growl notification style (webkit based, using HTML/CSS). I was rather happy with the result and have been using it ever since. Today, I'd like to share it with you. All you need to do is download the .growlStyle package & double click to install it. Enjoy!

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Discussion - 6 comments

leiger avatar

Anonymousleiger 31 May 2011 09:07

Looks great! I'll try it out now.

I am currently using "Music Video", which comes pre-installed with Growl.

My major issue with it though is that you cannot click on it (so Twitter might say "click here to go to the tweet", but clicking is ignored).

Yours looks like one of the more conventional small square ones that does allow mouse clicks.


Also, I cannot close the message on the home page, because I do not have edit permissions for the page (and therefore I cannot use the set-tags button!)

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leiger avatar

Anonymousleiger 31 May 2011 09:47

I think this may be a Growl bug, but in case it's something that you have done incorrectly I'll explain the problem:

Installation seemed to work correctly.

  • Downloaded to Downloads folder
  • Clicking on archive unzipped it
  • Clicking on Glossy.growlStyle popped up a message to indicate that it had been installed

However, that final popup asked me if I wanted to configure it immediately. I said yes, and it popped open the Preferences dialog for Growl.

"Glossy" was nowhere to be seen in the list. It only appeared after I stopped, and then restarted Growl, and opened the Preferences dialog again.

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Anonymousbcammo 31 May 2011 09:57

Hmm, not sure about the installation problem - I'll have to look into it further. And yes, the Glossy theme lets you click through to the application.

As for the homepage, permissions are set to allow wikidot users to edit it so I'm not sure what's going on. Either way, I've removed that message for the time being.

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leiger avatar

Anonymousleiger 31 May 2011 10:48

As for the homepage, permissions are set to allow wikidot users to edit it so I'm not sure what's going on. Either way, I've removed that message for the time being.

Perhaps the inc:blog page has an impact somehow - try putting the notification text back on the main homepage, and see if it makes a difference?

Includes simply pull code from one page to another, so if it is pulling in the more restrictive permissions as well we may have just found an unreported bug :)

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Matt Gentile avatar

AnonymousMatt Gentile 03 Jun 2011 01:59

Great job, maybe you can add it to the design section on the Icon deposit as a web element?

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