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Comment by krainboltgreene | Hacker News Reader

Wow, that totally kicks Gnome's notify in the butt! I'm so damn tired of Gnome's notification system.

Well, I'd rather sacrifice HTML than the desktop integration in such visually important part of the desktop. In fact, desktop notifications spec (for Linux desktops) allows (very) small subset of HTML, which should fully suffice for any reasonable bubble-styled notifications.

Making custom themes to match the style of the desktop would be ultimately painful, and even impossible for quite (too much, maybe) sophisticated KDE's plasma notifications. What a pity.

The actual notification display doesn't appeal to me, in fact I think it's a horrible idea (though I realize it's intended for Chrome OS), but if another native notification system could intercept... that would be nice.

Actually, it looks to me like you can't put html into the notifications. It's treating it as plain text.

You can, but the support is only optional. I don't know why, but if you use recent gnome notification-daemon and that standard (black, I believe) theme, it escapes the markup. In fact, it already shows all the text in notification in bold, no matter what you do. I have no idea why, that small HTML subset is directly supported and used in GTK+, so they actually had to explicitly filter escape it, otherwise, it would work. Older notification-daemon themes allowed it. (Example: http://i.imgur.com/gaLvt.jpg)

This is quite weird.

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