Comment 6 for bug 346095

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:32:27 -0000
Mat Tomaszewski <email address hidden> wrote:

> No need for such harsh tone and strong emotions just because your
> question was misunderstood.
>
> We designed the notification system with the default setting (panel
> at the top) in mind. The beauty of free software is that you can
> modify it if you want to, to best suit your needs...

Sorry, seriously.

That said, this is not the first "misunderstanding" that has been had
over this new notification system.

It seems like everyone involved in its development dismiss any issues
with it as "that's a design thing". Even Mark says that it will never
be customizable within Ubuntu because that isn't what it is designed to
do. That means, for people like me, that it is broken.

The real problem? The reason I'm getting my pants in a twist? That
type of mentality ("we know better than the users, make the software
think it knows better than the user, too") is _precisely_ the reason
that I don't use Windows.

Closing a legitimate regression (read: regression in Ubuntu, because it
cannot possibly be a regression in notify-osd since it is new)? We
might as well close bug 1 as invalid, wontfix.

 --- Mike