Brightness notifications have a duration of 5000ms

[Ara Pulido]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Brightness notifications are confirmation notifications and, therefore, they should last only 2000ms.

Volume notifications are lasting 2000ms, but brightness ones are lasting for 5000ms since the last updates.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: notify-osd 0.9.3-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: notify-osd
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-9-generic i686

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

Affects me, too

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

That's very likely been introduced by revision http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~notify-osd-developers/notify-osd/main/revision/224 where I fixed bug https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/341565. I'll add "compatibility"-checks to ease the transition-phase for patched apps.
What happens is that, right now, checks in notify-osd are only done for the correct capability- and hint-names (e.g. "x-canonical-private-synchronous"). But all patched apps still use the old (and non-spec compliant) ones (e.g. "synchronous"). Thus for the example of synchronous notifications/bubbles these now are handled as asynchronous ones and are treated with the 5000ms timeout instead of the 2000 ms one.

[Mat Tomaszewski (mat.t.)]

Just noticed that volume and brightness display simultaneously, seems like the brightness behaves just like an asynchronous notification.

[David Barth (dbarth)]

That's gpm/gsd patches. I'm on that.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

I just added compatibility-checks to notify-osd, which also check for the old hint-names (in addition to the new ones) and also exposes the old capability-names (in additionn to the new ones too). So this should ease the flood of bug-reports from users. Still our patches to applications need to be updated... rather sooner than later.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package notify-osd - 0.9.6-0ubuntu1

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notify-osd (0.9.6-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release 0.9.6:
    - Detect screensaver inhibition for do-not-disturb mode.
    - Add compatibility checks to ease transition period for applications to
      pick up the capability and hint name changes. (LP: #343553)
    - Correctly exit if registering on DBus failed. (LP: #331150)
    - Fix filtering of HTML.
    - Basic accessibility support.

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:39:13 +0100