Comment 143 for bug 390508

Il 08/07/2010 13:49, Sebastien Bacher ha scritto:
> bealer, opensource based doesn't mean you can't take design decisions or
> choices,

Right, but it's still possible to suggest a change or feature and maybe
provide a patch for it (often developers don't spend time in features
they are not directly interested in, but still agree to include features
useful for others).

> we could try to fix every applications and blame random
> softwares installed from the internet for making ubuntu bug

Are you talking about notify-osd? Using something defined in the DNS is
a bug?

> or we can
> enforce some design choices we believe benefit our users and
> communication to software writers on our design choice and how to well
> integrate with our system,

You forget that Ubuntu it's just one linux distribution, not the whole
world. Basically, software developers don't care about notify-osd, they
just create DNS compliant messages, so there's nothing to force.

> The vast majority of people out there don't care about notifications, they don't care about softwares, they don't care about configurations or computer, they want to go on the internet, chat with their friends, etc. [...] why is that so much of an issue?

A simple option allowing the power users to switch from the default
fixed timeout to client defined timeouts is easy to implement and
doesn't disturb anybody that might not care.
"why is that so much of an issue?". But once again you won't reply.