Comment 4 for bug 689505

Yup, same issue, that environment variable works.
And my conditions are exactly as described in the gnome bug: KDE4, x86_64, and moving Banshee.NotificationArea.* out of /usr/lib/banshee-1/Extensions is another workaround I had found but forgotten to update the bug (sorry!)

Is a backport of that patch likely in the near future? (it's not as important since there are now workarounds - that don't need root even, but it would be nice)