notify-osd doesn't merge similar notifications

[Smeuuh]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Example https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDevelopmentGuidelines?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=append-hint-example.py doesn't merge notifications, and neither does empathy. Using Karmic alpha 5 on an amd64 box. Instead, it just replaces the text of the previous notification.

[Mirco Müller (macslow)]

That example is out of date. See the trunk version of notify-osd for a current append-hint example (notify-osd/examples/append-hint-example.py).

[Smeuuh (smeuuh)]

Thank you for the hint. Could you update the wiki to reflect that ?

Also, is there a way to use append with notify-send ? As far as I can see, its use, with something like :

antoine@lambda:~$ notify-send -i notification-message-im hey john -h string:x-canonical-append:allowed
antoine@lambda:~$ notify-send -i notification-message-im hey bob -h string:x-canonical-append:allowed

is prevented because notify-send doesn't cumulate IDs (from the debug output of notify-osd). Is there a particular reason for this requirement ? I'm trying to build notifications for emacs using notify-osd, and this prevents me from using the append feature. Why not just append if the hint is provided and the title and app match ? This should be enough to filter all false positive.