Comment 5 for bug 420583

I don't understand this code really:
indicator-applet-developers/notify-osd/trunk/src/defaults.c

gint
defaults_get_on_screen_timeout (Defaults* self)
{
gint on_screen_timeout;

if (!self || !IS_DEFAULTS (self))
return 0;

g_object_get (self, "on-screen-timeout", &on_screen_timeout, NULL);

return on_screen_timeout;
}

x time for n characters?