Comment 53 for bug 390508

wirespot, pidgin-libnotify does not use notify-send either. This bug report is not about notify-send, it is about notify-osd. If you find a bug in notify-send, report a bug on the libnotify package. I don't mind that you're not interested in bubble color or in Vista's behavior; those comments were addressed to Marco and Dana respectively, not to you.

Justin Clift, I suggested that you be more specific about your use case, and that you post to the Ayatana mailing list to ask for advice. Since you have done neither of those things, it's a bit hard to tell what your problem is! But any approach that expects a notification bubble to be gone after a given time will have undesirable results if another program has a notification bubble up at the moment your program requests its own. Either your bubble will still be up at the time you expect it to be gone, or it will be up for a randomly shorter duration than you intended, or it will not appear at all. This is why I say that org.freedesktop.Notifications is *not appropriate* for synchronous feedback, regardless of what notification display system you are using. If you have implemented an overlay system for your confirmation bubbles, it would be cool if you could make that available as a library other programs can use.