Title should wrap up to three lines of text

[Mark Shuttleworth]

The notification title should wrap up to three lines if it's too long to fit on one line. Titles that are longer than three lines should be truncated with ellipsis at the end of the third line.

Steps to reproduce:

  notify-send "This is a really long title, but it should wrap over three lines then be truncated. The exact point of truncation would depend on the font but nevertheless it should wrap-and-truncate over three lines."

Result: The title takes a single line and is truncated, like "This is a very long title, b..."

Expected result: The title wraps over three lines and is then truncated:

This is a very long title, but it
should wrap over three lines
then be truncated. The exac...

[Ivan Stetsenko (stetzen)]

I think, that the size of notification bubble is a big issue for nearly all existing notification systems for linux. It will be great ho have a possibility (maybe somewhere in gconf) to manually set the maximal size of notification bubble, both in terms of title size and a message size. Maybe it should be reported as a separate bug.

[Mårten Woxberg (maxmc)]

My first reaction when this happened was to mouse over the bubble (because I thought it would expand)... instead it faded away.