Reduce GNTP logging.
Limit GNTP timeout to 10 seconds (if Python version supports it).
Start GNTP notification in separate thread to prevent lockups when server does not respond.
- Windows: through GNTP library
- OSX: through Growl library for local server and GTNP for remote server
- Unix/Linux: through GNTP library
For Ubuntu there's support for NotifyOSD.
Made Growl class texts translatable.