When comparing Desktop Notifications vs KDE Connect, the Slant community recommends KDE Connect for most people. In the question“What are the best ways of getting Android notifications on your PC/Mac?” KDE Connect is ranked 2nd while Desktop Notifications is ranked 5th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Uses a Chrome or Firefox extension for Mac/PC
Desktop Notifications uses a Chrome or Firefox extension to display notifications. This makes it easy to always have your Android notifications on any computer signed into Chrome.
Pro Chrome notifications act as a notification drawer
Desktop Notifications uses Chrome notifications to act as a running list of past notification that have not yet been dismissed. This is especially useful if you receive a lot of notifications or you are not at your computer when they are received.
Pro Free
Pro Runs with Chrome open by default
Pro Open source
Pro Free and easy to work with
Pro Frees one from other parasitic, eternal wallet bleeding software
Good software is written once and well, and then sold with a perpetual license. Happy users are welcome to buy new versions in future years or continue using the one they already bought. Toxic business models feature CEO's explaining the juicy but unwarranted revenue stream they will create with gullible user's wallets by charging monthly/annual fees for software that should have been written once, paid for once. Thanks to KDE we can choose the former and are free to reject the latter.
Pro Works with Win10 Laptop and Android phone
Pro Works perfectly with Gnome using the GSConnect extension
Cons
Con No ability to disable notification mirroring of an application from Chrome
From Chrome it is possible to exit out of a notification but there is no way to permanently dismiss an app from mirroring its notifications.
Con Slight delay
While other services like Pushbullet receive notifications almost immediately. There is a delay of a few seconds with Desktop Notifications. Although the developer is working on it. In response to a user review the developer stated "We had to introduce a delay to the notifications because of the overwhelming amount of users who started using our app recently. Otherwise our servers would melt. :) When you don't receive a notification for some time our app will check less frequently. We don't like this either and are working on it!"
Con Less information previewed in notifications than other services
Desktop Notifications does not preview the message or provide the email of the sender (only the name). Other services preview the email in the notification.