Comment 26 for bug 331369

@Darren: notifications are always shown at the top of the screen as a design recommendation; if the panel is at the bottom, they still appear at the top of the screen

@Ryan: i don't think there was a regression recently here; we had some initial try some weeks ago at positioning the notifications not directly at the top, but the resulting gap was disturbing for most users

@Nick: notify-osd looks for either the a gnome-panel at the top or the standard WORKAREA if no top gnome-panel can be detected; we don't strictly try to detect where the status icons are because they may be distributed over multiple panels and not necessarily in the order we would expect them to be to be able to decide where to actually display notifications. Instead we chose to attach them to the right side of the top panel (or the left side if your using a RTL language)