Oh I see!!! I did see something about sandboxing in the osx mountain lion thing.
On 7/26/12, Justin Ekis <[email protected]> wrote: > This situation is a little weird. Notification center actually does support > third party apps, but only apps on the Mac App Store. Apple's Idea is to > reserve certain OS X features as exclusive to the App Store, to try to > convince developers to use it. As another example, only App Store apps can > use iCloud features. > > This is why growl is still needed. Some apps can't be in the store, because > of the rules for what App Store Apps are allowed to do. For those, growl > notifications are still the only option. But Growl is in the store, so > perhaps in a future version it can act as a bridge and pass notifications > from other apps into notification center. I believe they are working on that > option. > > On Jul 26, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Missy Hoppe wrote: > > Nope, dropbox isn't listed. Thought I heard that notification center doesn't > support 3rd party apps yet. I'll just look > forward to the growl update that will probably be coming out soon. I don't > use Imessage yet, so alerts shouldn't cause too > much of an issue. Thanks again for your help! > Missy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of josh gregory > Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:37 PM > To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility > Subject: Re: Growl and mountain lion? > > Hey you too! :) um... go down the list of apps in the settings in > notification center. If there's one, lol. Is dropbox one of > them? > Yeah, alerts definitely work better. As long as you don't get a lot of > iMessages to the point where it's really annoying, or > anything like that, you should be fine, :) > > On 7/26/12, Missy Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi! Thanks for the explanation. I'll change my settings in >> notification center; had it set to banners, but if alerts work better, >> then I'll use them instead. Notification center is awesome, but >> doesn't read changes in dropbox, and can't be configured to use the >> system voice. I've found an article, though, and it seems that a new >> version of growl will be coming soon. So, I'll just tough it out until >> then. (smile) Thanks again for your explanation, and I hope that >> you're having a great day! >> Missy >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of josh gregory >> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 3:11 PM >> To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility >> Subject: Re: Growl and mountain lion? >> >> You may not even need growl, what with notification center. It should >> alert you when a notification pops up, which was what growl pretty >> much did. Hmm.... never heard of hiss. Is it free? For settings, you >> want to set vo to display alerts instead of banners, if it's like how >> it is in iOS, which I'll know more of soon. >> hopefully, lol. For instance, when it's set to banners, vo in iOS will >> say: New notification from app (where app is the name of the >> app) but it won't let you go to it or anything. >> When alerts are set up, though, vo will >> say: Alert! Name of app, then the notification, with a close, and a >> reply/launch/whatever the notification requires button. I think, but >> am not sure, that this is the same in Mountain Lion, with the button >> to view the notification always being show. >> Did any of that make sense? lol. >> >> On 7/26/12, Missy Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi! I installed Mountain Lion last night, and on the whole, I'm very >>> impressed. My bootcamp wasn't affected in the slightest, which was a >>> huge relief. Since I was never all that fond of lion, I figured I had >>> very little to lose by upgrading right away. Anyway, I know there are >>> a lot of things I still need to learn, but the only major problem >>> I've run into so far is that growl notifications aren't spoken as >>> they were. I'm not sure if there will be a growl update released to >>> fix this, or what the deal is. The notifications I'm mostly >>> interested in getting back are when files are added, deleted or changed >>> in dropbox. >>> Granted, I do most things on my PC, but if I happened to have the mac >>> on as well, it was handy to hear acapella Tracy informing me of >>> dropbox changes. I'm very happy that the Acapella voices are still >>> working. I use Alex for Voiceover stuff, but Tracy is my system >>> voice, and I'm happy that didn't have to change. If anyone could >>> shed some light on the situation with growl, that would be great. >>> On a similar note, I'm wondering if there's any way to configure >>> notification center to use the system voice? Sometimes, if I'm >>> reading something else, notifications aren't read, so if it's >>> possible to configure it to use the system voice, that would be >>> helpful. Also, has anyone tried this little program called Hiss? It >>> supposedly bridges the gap between growl and notification center, but >>> so far, I haven't been impressed with its performance, especially >>> since it doesn't honor growl settings with regard to system voice >>> being used. Is there going to be a growl update soon that will resolve >>> all of these minor issues? >>> Also, I've noticed, especially if notification center is telling me >>> about a dm or mention I received on twitter, that it doesn't read the >>> whole thing. Is that fixible, or would I have to go to notification >>> center to see the whole thing? What notification center settings are >>> ideal for using with VO? 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