I have a thought.

With unity coming up there will be quite a lot of space saved with the
nifty global menu and the housing of the window buttons on the top
panel.

Essentially, the titlebar disappearing on maximize causes the search bar
in firefox (and many other apps, actually) to be right smack under the
top panel, only taking up a few centimeters under it.

I think this shift can be taken advantage of in terms of notify-osd as
well. See, the brightness/volume notification bubbles are pretty big (to
fill up the space for the current model, I'm guessing). These
notifications can get reduced in size to accommodate the fact that the
important stuff is now flush with the panel. This way the other bubbles
can get moved up a bit and free up a little room: Similarly, the system
bubbles are even less intrusive (since the person is causing the
adjustment these notifications require far less attention-grabbing).
This also consistently differentiates system bubbles and the rest.

Take a look at the attached for an example. I did not alter the sizes of
the actual screenshots, just the notify-osd bubble. The fonts are just
used differently in Natty than in Maverick so it appears altered.

I hope Mr. Muller is still monitoring this report for I would be curious
to know his opinion on the matter.

** Attachment added: "mockup.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/438536/+attachment/1794227/+files/mockup.png

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  Notifications should show up closer to top right

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