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[topdownjimmy <topdownjimmy@xxxxxxxxx>]

> - Add a glow effect and a *very* gentle pulse to active (blue)
> indicators. This will make them slightly more obvious and
> interactive-looking than currently. We'll have to be careful not to
> make them too distracting, though.

I just had this same thought. If the indicator icon glow-pulsed for
the duration of the notification bubble, that would seem to link the
two pretty clearly.

Two difficulties with this:

1) If there are notification bubbles from different applications, it
won't be clear which bubble is associated with which icon.
2) Not all applications that use notification bubbles have an
indicator icon, so the behavior would be inconsistent and disorienting
when nothing pulsed.

What if, instead (or in addition to pulsing), notification bubbles had
a 16x16 application icon in the upper-left or upper-right corner?