Many would agree, yours truly included, that Google is very close to perfecting the Android notification system. It has been the envy of many on a different mobile OS (ahem, a fruit-themed one perhaps) and yet, Google has not ported it to its other major project, Chrome OS. Well, it’s looking like this is about to change. Kevin Tofel from About Chromebooks has discovered a new entry in the always-enlightening Chrome Gerrit, which sheds light on a new feature coming to ChromeOS v91: App Notification Badging.
This isn’t the half-baked solution we currently have behind the #enable-notification-indicator flag, which only displays a notification dot. Instead, we’re talking about a proper badge that can display the number of active notifications for that specific app and can function even when the app window is closed, just same as the desktop version of Chrome can do right now. This is at least how I hope this will work.
