Comment 27 for bug 436975

I've used Linux for 10+ years now, and have found myself gravitating toward a "use it, don't program it" model - hence the reason I stick with Ubuntu. To that end, I installed Karmic today and have run into this notification system issue.

It is my opinion, as a *normal user*, that one should be able to configure most everything about the way these notifications show up on the screen: colors, font face and size, time out period, translucency, etc. Otherwise, it could end up looking pretty bad with some desktop settings. I suggest that a generic tool (in the same vein as nvidia-settings or even gconf-editor) be created to provide this functionality. Maybe base it on the tool Gnome apparently provides.

I respect the notion that the programmer(s) may not have thought of this need initially, but it remains a need. I don't care if the powers-that-be say that it should be the way it is now - not even Mark himself. It's my computer and my desktop. As such, they need to behave the way I want them to without me having to meddle with potentially important files or tinker with undocumented keys, let alone switching distributions