Comment 75 for bug 390508

> The current system does support appending or replacing,
> see what the default im client or music player do in lucid

Yes, but those abilities are not possible with notify-send.

Hence, these bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnotify/+bug/257135

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=559544

> You should maybe come with concrete example of things that
> the current design is limiting which would benefit users

I have three audio devices, and I have a script to cycle the
current sink to use the next device. Currently, with the broken
notify-send, if I hit a hotkey to cycle to the next device I am unable
to see which current device is active unless I pause for 5 seconds
each time I want to switch devices. This makes notify-send totally
useless.

It seems as if the Ubuntu UI developers have a deep seated inability
to contemplate the possibility that other people have useful and
productive things to say. What a nice way to treat people who are
basically volunteering their labor to help make Ubuntu better.