> Yes, but those abilities are not possible with notify-send.

so there is an another way to fix your issue there which is to improve
notify-send or have a notify-osd-send handling those

> to see which current device is active unless I pause for 5 seconds
each time I want to switch devices. This makes notify-send totally
useless.

that's a fair point but notify-osd doesn't force you to wait, see what
happens when changing tracks with a music player on lucid, the
limitation there is not with what notify-osd let you do but rather with
the notify-send command

> It seems as if the Ubuntu UI developers have a deep seated inability
to contemplate the possibility that other people have useful and
productive things to say.

What does that mean exactly? This comment doesn't seem especially
constructive in reply to a question which aims at understanding your
needs to try to solve the issue... Why can't we have something looking
nice and behaving in a consitant way there which still working
correctly? You failed so far at showing the need of notify-osd changes
there

** Changed in: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow) => (unassigned)

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notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508
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