The reason for limiting the amount of on-screen notifications at anyone time, is to protect the user from notification-spam.
Ongion, notifications you consider to not meant to be passive-only, should really be proper dialogs (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines). The different on-screen time of notifications, rendered by notify-osd, is a bug that'll be fixed for Lucid (see https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid- notifications). -- Notifications should show up closer to top right https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438536 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs