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Re:Chromium Blog: Streamlining Notifications on Desktop by sjun on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:03PM (#10389040)
This decision makes sense. I'm assuming that they're going with the platform native notification APIs now.

With the release of Windows 10, all three platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux) now have a native notification center that supports persistent notifications that were missed or haven't been dismissed.

The Chrome's notification center was always out of place for Linux and Mac users since there was already a fully featured native notification center that wasn't being used.

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Re:Chromium Blog: Streamlining Notifications on Desktop by mynameisvlad on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @04:51PM (#10389413)
I mean, Linux doesn't have a common native notification center. You have to install libnotify and have a notification server to use it. Granted, most distros will do it for you, but it's not really the same as OSX/Windows.
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Re:Chromium Blog: Streamlining Notifications on Desktop by baghira on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @05:13PM (#10389577)
By the same token it doesn't even have a window system, I don't think it is a good argument. Chrome/chromium should simply depend on libnotify, just like it depends on gtk2.
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