Documentation shoud be accurate. When it's not there's a bug.
There's two ways to fix that kind of a bug: make the software work correctly, or rewrite the documentation.
If the desire for a consistent user interface is to much to make the software work correctly as described in the docs (by having the notification system respect the notify-osd timeout parameter), then notify-osd should be forked into a special Ubuntu version that doesn't have a timeout parameter in the documentation.
Ronny might have nothing to add (neither do I really), but he's still right.
Documentation shoud be accurate. When it's not there's a bug.
There's two ways to fix that kind of a bug: make the software work correctly, or rewrite the documentation.
If the desire for a consistent user interface is to much to make the software work correctly as described in the docs (by having the notification system respect the notify-osd timeout parameter), then notify-osd should be forked into a special Ubuntu version that doesn't have a timeout parameter in the documentation.
Ronny might have nothing to add (neither do I really), but he's still right.