notifications never cleared when new ones keep comming

[Redmar]

Binary package hint: notify-osd

Running Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10)
Using: 0.9.24-0ubuntu

What should happen: After a set time (3 seconds I believe?) notifications should disappear, even when new notifications are appearing.

What happens: When new notifications keep coming, old notifications never get cleared. This could cause an overdose of notifications that don't clear when many things happen at once.

How to reproduce: Get a first notification, and then trigger additional notifications. One way to get notifications is to keep changing the track in Rhythmbox. I used Rhythmbox for the initial notification and than changed the system volume with extra keyboard keys, this also triggers a notification.

Not a major issue, but i'm sure it will drive some people crazy if such a stack-up triggers for whatever reason.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, could you take a screenshot of the issue?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

[Redmar (redmar)]

I'm not sure what a screenshot would add to my description, you would just see two notifications. I've tried

notify-send $date

or something like that, but that doesnt seem to work. What kind of screenshot would help ilustrate the problem better?

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I am not certain if the current behavior is intended or is a bug. its been there for a while so guess its by design and there is certainly room for improvement there.

[Vanessa Lee (vanessax)]

I think this problem is either related to or compounded by another issue about timeouts that is unresolved, there is a long standing bug #390508 discussed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/390508