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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alex Lourie wrote on 01/06/10 13:48:
>...
> I've just read about new (or, rather new) desktop notifications that
> are or going to be provided with Chrome APIs [1] (And that's awesome,
> as this may help developing interesting workflows with browser).
>
> But the design of these notifications differ significantly from the
> Ubuntu indicator styles and will make users crazy when integrated.
> Should there be any effort to make them more consistent with indicator
> styles?
>...

Canonical's DX team uses the term "indicators" to refer to menus.
Chrome's notifications have nothing to do with menus.

If you are referring to Ubuntu's notification bubbles, Chrome's
notification API is fundamentally incompatible with Ubuntu notification
bubbles. It is also fundamentally incompatible with Windows notification
balloons, and with Growl notifications on Mac OS X.
It's very much a Chrome-specific thing.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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