# Configure Notifications

Yate can issue notifications through Growl or Notification Center, or not at all. Note that a selection of Notification Center on OS X 10.6 or 10.7 will be interpreted as Growl. Notification Center is not supported on those platforms. Note that the Growl mode will work even if you do not have Growl installed. Growl is available in the Mac App Store.

You can choose which classes of notifications you would like to receive. Note that you can elect to play a sound for the Batch processing finished notification. The sound option is only used in conjunction with Notification Center.

When issuing notifications through Notification Center, you can elect to clear them all when exiting the application. You can also manually clear the notifications at any time.

When a process such as loading, saving, etc. finishes and Yate is the current application, (the Yate menu displays next to the apple at the top left of the display), the main window will be forced to the front and given focus. When Yate is not the current application, you can choose to bounce the dock icon or to display the window.

Yate typically dims its main window and activates a spinner when processing. If the application is onscreen, the termination of the spinning may be a sufficient notification even when Yate is not the current application. You can configure the application to not bounce the dock icon, if the main window is onscreen. The onscreen testing is far better on OS X v10.9 or greater than on earlier versions.

The dock icon can be set to bounce repeatedly (approximately every 5 seconds until the application is activated) or to bounce once.