Familiarity with Mountain Lion: Center notifications
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Until yesterday, the users did not have a unified notification center. Therefore, the application reports on new developments in various ways. Some programs used for this red badge on the icon in the Dock, the other - spitting animated icons in the menu bar, and others - are involved Growl (or display their own notification style Growl), the fourth - demonstrated a new window ( "new version. Download?").
With the Mountain Lion cleaned up. Apple gave developers unified notification system. The programmer is no longer necessary to write "bones" or persuade users to put Growl.
Reports on new developments can be of two types: a "banner" and as a "reminder". Banner appears in the upper right corner, there is a few seconds, and then automatically disappears. An example of a logical use of banners - about the successful completion of boot messages.
"Reminders" is visually similar to the banners. The difference is that the Reminders "is not close automatically. They remain on the screen for as long as the user decides to close the window and forget about the notification or open the program and read the message. Reminders is appropriate to use for more important tasks - Reminders and Mail, for example.
What if you were distracted and missed a banner? Or he appeared in your absence? In Mountain Lion, you can see all notifications in the Notification Center (Notification Center). To his cause, click the most recent icon in the menu (resembles a list) row. You can also get to the center, if spend two fingers from right to left. Please note: it is necessary to hold sway even beyond the touchpad. Fans can configure hotkeys corresponding hotkeys (System Preferences - Keyboard - Mission Control - Display Notification Center).
In Notification Center displays messages sent to all the applications that were installed from the Mac App Store (thanks Igal Schneider for help: other apps do not have access to the CO). Here you will find calendar events, reminders (Reminders), Messages (Messages), replies and mentions on Twitter, notification emails, posts about new versions of installed programs, etc. etc. All notifications are grouped by applications. The sort order of applications in the general list - manual. If for you the most priority notifications "Reminder" calendar - put them higher than, for example, notifications from the browser. This can be done in System Preferences, see "Reminders". If you wish, you can set the "chronological" sorting.
Since notifications can often detract from the work, Apple has provided several opportunities for their trip. Firstly, you can temporarily turn off all notifications at once. To do this, simply open the center, pull down the list. Will switch "Displaying banners and reminders." If the state value flow do not forget about this possibility.
The second way to disable notifications - click while holding down the option key, the most recent icon in the menu bar.
Apple developers also do not forget about the cases, when the reminder may interfere. If you spend a presentation using the Mac, the operating system will automatically disable the notification is displayed, and the report will be successful.
A controversial feature - is the ability to send tweets from Notification Center. In the drawing Tweets found a place for signs and geo counter (limited to 140 characters in length Twitter posts). In the autumn will update that will add another, and integration with Facebook. In my opinion, this is a bad idea. Well, that social stuff can be omitted.
To notify Center - a strong argument in favor of an upgrade on the ML. Now we can control which programs can show notifications, and what - no. We can also choose the format of the notifications. Developers affect the appearance of the notification can not. The maximum that allowed Apple, - place the application icon in the message window. More is not given.
I think that Notification Center may be one of the most important applications of OS X. To me, this program provides a picture of the coming day. You open the morning, looking at a list of calendar events, memos and e-mails, and more accurately plan the day.