Comment 8 for bug 346095

It's very common for replacement components to have different levels of configurability from what they are replacing. For example, if we decided to replace Pidgin with Empathy as the default IM client, that wouldn't in itself mean Empathy was wrong not to offer a "Use smooth-scrolling" option or a "Use status from last exit at startup" option like Pidgin does. Similarly if we decided to replace Rhythmbox with Banshee as the default music player, that wouldn't in itself mean Banshee was wrong not to offer a "Toolbar Button Labels" setting like Rhythmbox does. If you're going to propose that Notify OSD have a particular option, advocating for it on its own merits (for example, what sort of people would use the different setting values?) would be much more interesting than "well, notification-daemon had a gconf option for that".

ktp420, you're quite correct to point out that the average user is not going to want to recompile software. But that's fine, because they are not going to want to configure the bubble placement either. We could be wrong about that; the beauty of Free Software is that if we are wrong, you can make your own variant and it will be wildly popular.