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Closed: Jul 2011
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Feature request: Allow using D-Bus for Desktop Notifications
Reported by estebank@google.com, Aug 24 2010 Back to list
Window manager: KDE / GNOME

What is the expected result?
* Chrome's Desktop Notifications[1] appearing on the Desktop Manager notification widget, for example, KDE's[2].

What happens instead?
* The Desktop Notifications appear alien and inconsistently with the rest of the desktop.

Please provide any additional information below. 

Reading the Specification[1], I saw this comment:

> On Mac and Linux, we considered to use 3rd party notification 
> libraries, but have determined that having a unified HTML-capable
> interface is a better course, so Chrome will render HTML 
> notifications on these platforms as well.

Even if that is a valid reasoning, it could be a good idea to provide a way to use D-Bus on Linux to keep the consistency of the desktop.

[1]: http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/desktop-notifications
[2]: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/kdebase-runtime/kcontrol/kcmnotify/index.html
 
Comment 1 by karen@chromium.org, Aug 25 2010
Labels: KDE Mstone-X
Labels: -Area-Undefined -Type-Bug Area-UI Type-Feature Feature-Notifications
Comment 3 by krog...@gmail.com, Feb 21 2011
please do it! :-)
 Issue 49805  has been merged into this issue.
On Gnome desktop notifications can use Pango markup to provide additional options. It's not exactly HTML but it's not plain text either.
Comment 6 by evan@chromium.org, Jul 19 2011
Status: WontFix
We have some discussion of this in the tech FAQ:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/linux-technical-faq

Unfortunately, the notifications API is too weak to support the sorts of notifications seen in the spec.  There is an extension that tries to implement support here:
  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmgdlkljbfeeinemfljcbmnkmbeligmn
but as seen in the comments there, users are unhappy that they can't click on the notifications (on Ubuntu) or that some sites use extended APIs that cause their notifications to not go through the system notifier.
Project Member Comment 7 by bugdroid1@chromium.org, Oct 13 2012
Labels: Restrict-AddIssueComment-Commit
This issue has been closed for some time. No one will pay attention to new comments.
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Project Member Comment 8 by bugdroid1@chromium.org, Mar 11 2013
Labels: -Area-UI -Feature-Notifications Cr-UI-Notifications Cr-UI
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