I was reading the Linux Technical FAQ[1] and noticed that there was a
question "Why don't Chromium notifications use the D-BUS-based
notifications system (aka libnotify / notification-daemon)?"
Well, me and a couple of other people have been hard at work putting
together something that does just that. You can find more information
on the project's Launchpad page[2]. In summary, there are two
principal components: an NPAPI plugin and a script that replaces the
default notification functions with one that interfaces with the
plugin.
The results are quite nice[3]. As you can see, I also added libcurl
support so that URLs can be used as images. Someone mentioned that I
should get in touch with the chromium people about this, so here is my
post :)
[1]
http://www.chromium.org/developers/linux-technical-faq
[2]
https://launchpad.net/chromify-osd
[3]
http://i.imgur.com/f1ygj.png