Comment 6 for bug 1014474

Since, according to George above, the key does not affect notify-osd, I suggest the custom notify-osd shnatsel linked be added to the dailies. I played with it myself and poured over the webupd8 comments and found no complaints that would negatively affect our implementation. This will suffice as a nice band-aid until lp:pantheon-notify is mature.

That's the easiest of the 3 solutions I came up with: patch notify-osd to accept colors, rollback to a notify-osd before color was changed, or my preferred option, use someone else's custom notify-osd.