Chrome/Chromium Lands Initial Support For Native Linux Desktop Notifications

[ssokolow]

I'm a bit surprised it took them so long. It's not like this is the most complicated thing to implement.

If I'm remembering correctly, Google created the initial Web Notifications draft and proof of concept and notifications were implemented as tiny HTML documents that were rendered in tiny popup windows.

The higher-level API that can be translated to platform-native APIs came later and, when it did, Chrome devs just stuck in a built-in HTML template to translate the high-level API to their existing notifications code.

[hrkristian]

Amazing news. I've been getting tired of notifications disregarding what I do on the desktop. Movies, games, whatever, doesn't matter what Chrome's gonna give a neat little white rectangle.

[Staffan]

Yeah, this function is certainly not going to bring with it a ton of new security issues, spamming and whatnot... No thanks.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

People need hardware accelerated video decoding more than this.

[Vistaus]

People need hardware accelerated video decoding more than this.

I'm part of "people" and I don't need hardware accelerated video. I just want those ugly, tiny-ass notification windows to begone and have a nice native notification whenever I download something.

[Ardje]

I freed about 700MB of ram usage on my 2GB chromebook just by turning off desktop notifications for whatsapp and gmail.

[bwat47]

I'm part of "people" and I don't need hardware accelerated video. I just want those ugly, tiny-ass notification windows to begone and have a nice native notification whenever I download something.

Pretty much anyone using a laptop either needs or wants it. Software decoding = more heat and less battery life. IMO it's ridiculous that chrome/firefox still have no hardware decoding on linux (chrome especially has no good excuse considering that chromium already has working vaapi acceleration code that they refuse to enable or eve give linux users a flag to enable).

[Vistaus]

Pretty much anyone using a laptop either needs or wants it. Software decoding = more heat and less battery life. IMO it's ridiculous that chrome/firefox still have no hardware decoding on linux (chrome especially has no good excuse considering that chromium already has working vaapi acceleration code that they refuse to enable or eve give linux users a flag to enable).

I'm using a laptop but I don't want hardware acceleration, my battery life (and heat distribution) is already good without it. I want better Linux notifications that are readable. Native notifications solve that.