The discussion is circling, could you take the chatting to mailing list of an another media than the bug tracker?
> use notify-osd to display a one or two word message for a second or two
you want to do this, some other for 6 seconds, some for 18 seconds, and we get a system working in a non consistant way for no real reason out of different software writters having different preferences for timing, you might consider that good but Ubuntu decided to make a call for consistent system interaction and not random timing behaviour which most users are glad for, if you don't agree with that feel free to use another notification service or distribution
The discussion is circling, could you take the chatting to mailing list of an another media than the bug tracker?
> use notify-osd to display a one or two word message for a second or two
you want to do this, some other for 6 seconds, some for 18 seconds, and we get a system working in a non consistant way for no real reason out of different software writters having different preferences for timing, you might consider that good but Ubuntu decided to make a call for consistent system interaction and not random timing behaviour which most users are glad for, if you don't agree with that feel free to use another notification service or distribution