Comment 44 for bug 390508

So let me see if I understand this right so we can move on.

The facts I see are these:
* notify-send and the accompanying framework is incapable of serving timeouts below several seconds, by design, and that design will not be changed.
* There is a need for shorter message timeouts.

Therefore you are hereby stating that the scope of notify-send is limited and anybody who is not pleased by those limitations should use other notification frameworks.

I will also address your other remarks, to the point:
* All who come in contact with Ubuntu will be affected by Ubuntu's choice in this matter. Developers and users alike, the distinction is irrelevant, since notify-send's limitations affect usability first of all.
* This is no longer about the man page, in case anybody had any doubts. This is about notify-send being arbitrarily limited in its capabilities.
* Your rewording about "conflicting" with notify-send does little to change the initial impression. The initial anger is obviously gone now, but I still do not appreciate the patronizing behind the statement.
* As I'm sure you well know, Pidgin may be written in C but has plugins written in various languages, and one of those plugins is pidgin-libnotify. I don't really understand what your point was on this topic.
* I do think notify-send is broken in Ubuntu, and I'm commenting now, on this bug. I think the title of the bug captures the letter, if not the spirit, of what is broken with notify-send, so it's the best place to comment. We can always open another bug report and rephrase it slightly differently if you wish to be pedantic but I don't see the point, really.
* Color bubbles are not in any way related to the topic at hand, which is timeout.
* I'm not really interested in how the Vista notifications work, I'm interested in notify-send. The Vista stuff may be just as broken, but I don't see how that's relevant.