As many of our you know, one conspicuously missing feature in the Mac desktop app is the ability to hook into Growl notifications (Growl Notifications has the most “me too” clicks out of any idea on our community help site). Unfortunately, in order to hook into Growl with AIR we’ve been waiting for a Growl release which includes a special protocol called GNTP that lets us send notifications by talking over the network. Sadly, that release isn’t slated until Growl 2.0 which has no specific date yet.
So, we took it upon ourselves to get the client ready for when GNTP Growl is released. The latest version of the client includes early developmental support for displaying Growl notifications on Mac. We’re letting you know about this because there has been such high demand for it.
Disclaimer
Before we provide a link to a build which includes this support, please note: we are in no way providing support for Growl and this build of growl is still in development, which means there may be bugs (including security issues). Use at your own risk.
How to set it up
That said, we know there are some of you out there who are OK with installing developmental software and understand the issues and bugs that potentially come along with it.
- Make sure your HipChat client is up to date
- Download the build at http://downloads.hipchat.com/growl-gntp.tgz
- Unzip the contents of the .tgz file
- Double-click on the Growl.prefPane item. It will prompt you to overwrite your existing Growl version.
- Once you have it installed, re-launch HipChat and it will automatically begin using Growl to send you notifications.
If you want to revert to the latest official version of Growl, simply go to http://growl.info and download the latest installer. It will prompt you to overwrite the GNTP install.