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I think it would be beautiful to have an indicator in Unity tray, counting Google+ notifications (orange on black, like in Google bar). Where can I find it?

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    Currently the google+ API seems not to allow access to the notifications. There is a feature request [here](http://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=96&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Milestone%20Owner%20Summary%20Component) which asks for exactly this API enhancement. So it is unlikely that a desktop application will provide this, as long as the API is missing. – xubuntix Nov 13 '11 at 08:17
  • @xubuntix - that is a good answer - you should post it! – fossfreedom Nov 14 '11 at 21:21
  • done :-) and extended slightly – xubuntix Nov 14 '11 at 21:35

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As already mentioned in a comment:

Currently the google+ API seems not to allow access to the notifications. There is a feature request here which asks for exactly this API enhancement. So it is unlikely that a desktop application will provide this, as long as the API is missing.

The exceptions to this seem to maintain a hidden webkit window, which is first used to login the user and later does ajax calls to the google+ website plus probably some screen scraping of the result. This is not a straight forward way of handling something that would only require a simple API call in case it was enabled. So most developers will probably wait until the API is updated.

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