Comment 72 for bug 390508
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| elijah (elijah) wrote Re: [Bug 390508] Re: notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter | #72 |
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On 03/18/2010 10:15 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> you are free to install notification-daemon which is the one
> which was used before or to build your own version of notify-osd if you
> want to change this one.
No, you can't. This only works if you are writing software that you
don't want to distribute to anyone else. If you want to share with other
people, they must also have a functional (i.e. patched) notify-osd.
I think the arrogance of the Ubuntu developers on this thread is really
shocking. There are apps bundled with Ubuntu that don't follow the silly
5 second rule, like the volume control.
The real problem is that notify-send is very limited in functionality.
Either it should support merging, replacement, and stacking, or
notify-osd should support the timeout option. This is just common sense.
The problem with UI experts is that they like to pretend what they do is
a science, when really it is subjective art. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu
UI developers have decided that they know better than everyone else.