[technomancy]

> Tell that to the Unity team. Or look at the app indicators. Or notify-osd.

Unity is (a) not fully-baked yet and (b) a big change from what Ubuntu has historically focused on in the past. App indicators an notify-osd are pretty tiny from a code perspective, though not from a design perspective.

I'm not trying to trivialize the effort of polish and design, because it's a large part of what the free software community has traditionally been fairly bad at. But it's very different from nuts-and-bolts engineering.