Filip Novotny One of the main innovations of OS X Mountain Lion is undoubtedly the Notification Center. For now, few apps will take advantage of this feature, but luckily there is an easy workaround that will allow you to use it anyway.
How is it even possible that there are almost no applications yet that could use the Notification Center? It is, after all, one of the biggest draws of the new OS X. Paradoxically, however, the reason for the delay is precisely the fact that notifications play a really big role for Apple. In addition to the marketing content, this is also proven by the new strategy that the Mac manufacturer has chosen for desktop applications. Developers who want to use the Notification Center or iCloud services can only do so if they publish their creation through the unified Mac App Store.
The application must go through an approval process, in which from now on most of all they look at whether so-called sandboxing has been used. This is already commonly used on the iOS platform and in practice guarantees that individual applications are strictly separated from each other and do not have the opportunity to access data that does not belong to them. They cannot intervene in the system in any deeper way, change the operation of the device or even the appearance of the control elements.
On the one hand, this is beneficial for obvious security reasons, but on the other hand, this condition can cut off popular tools such as Alfred (a search assistant that requires certain interventions in the system to function) from new functions. For applications that do not meet the new rules, developers will not be allowed to issue further updates, except for critical bug fixes. In short, we will unfortunately have to wait some time for the full use of the Notification Center.
However, it is already possible to start using it today, at least to a limited extent. The Growl application will help us with this, which for a long time was the only decent option for displaying notifications. Many users certainly know and use this solution, as its services are used by applications such as Adium, Sparrow, Dropbox, various RSS readers and many others. With Growl, any app can display simple notifications that (by default) appear for a few seconds in the upper right corner of the screen. In the new update, a kind of uniform window with a uniform list of them is also available, but Mountain Lion basically offers a much more elegant solution that can be quickly accessed with a simple gesture on the trackpad. In the future, it will therefore be more reasonable to use the built-in Notification Center, which, however, today, as already said, is supported by only a handful of applications. Fortunately, there is a small utility that will help us connect the two solutions.
His name is Hiss and he is free to download on the site of the Australian developer Collect3. This utility simply hides all growl notifications and redirects them to the Notification Center without having to set anything up. Then the notifications behave according to the user settings in System Preferences, i.e. they can appear as a banner in the upper right corner, it is possible to limit their number, turn on the sound signal and so on. Since all apps using Growl fall under the "GrowlHelperApp" entry in the Notification Center, it's a good idea to increase the number of notifications you see to at least ten, depending on the apps you're using. You can see how to make this setting and how Hiss works in practice on the attached screenshots. Although the solution described here is not entirely elegant, it would be a shame not to use the excellent Notification Center in OS X Mountain Lion. And now it's enough just to wait for the developers to really start implementing new features.
Well, Sparrow can send notifications through the notification center... Since it was already mentioned...
Notifications can be displayed by any application. The restriction for applications from sources other than MAS only applies to push notifications hosted by Apple and sent to the device.
See for example Chrome, which uses the notification center, but is not in MAS
Tweetbot also already works with the notification center.
My fundamental question is: how to turn off or uninstall the bug named Notification Center?
now just give the icon to change the status based on whether there is a new notification in the list or not and for some reason it will. I completely do not understand the point of an information system that I have to actively check myself... wtf? How am I supposed to sit at the computer all the time and watch when something arrives or doesn't arrive and every now and then check with the ejected screen to see if there's anything there?
Does anyone know why the App Store is not added to my notification center? My colleague has it there, unfortunately I don't. If anyone has a tip on how to get it there, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.
Bomb, thanks so much for the info! I was looking for this and finally found it :P