Comment 111 for bug 390508

@Heather Van Wilde

> To do what you recommend, any application would have
> to create their own notification system to do exactly what
> notify-osd does, but is unable to interact with it.

No, that's not true. You can trust me on that - as it happens, I wrote notification spec integration for another Mail User Agent myself, which works exactly as I described above.

> notify-osd already has the ability built in to show two bubbles at once

Actually, that's another thing that notify-osd cut down on. The upstream GNOME implementation "notification-daemon" allows much more bubbles to be displayed at the same time. But it doesn't really solve Torres' problem either: Having hundreds of bubbles from the same application on screen at the same time is not a pleasant experience. (To be fair, I am sure the upstream implementation has a display limit and a queue, too.)

[Cutting most of your points, as they are based on the wrong assumption in a)]

> as the notify-send man page still gives information for using a time-out when sending to it.
> At this point, my question would be, how far upstream is this bug?

One could say that the bug is indeed upstream: It's in the man page, which should make it clear that some daemons might ignore the timeout setting.