Holger Berndt ha scritto: >> Totally wrong > > No, it's not. I have clear in mind what is the aim of notify-osd. But I still don't see any reason why that goal is achived by imposing *every* user a fixed 5 seconds timeout.
> I was not talking about what you'd like, but about what notify-osd is aiming > at. It is part of project Ayatana, and here's a statement about > configurability in that project: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ayat...@lists.launchpad.net/msg00747.html We are neither talking about good defaults nor about extended configuration options. But you ignores it. >> Oh really? That's strange, because it fits perfectly my needs > > Obviously, it doesn't, because otherwise, there wouldn't be any need to > complain. No, it fits perfectly, but I do prefer to have different timeouts. What I'm complaining here mostly and what bothers me is the Ubuntu team arrogance and blindness. And the lack af good arguing for this limitation. > And I don't really care for your > engineering background, And we don't really care about you telling us what's right or wrong for us. >> Oh well, finally we discovered the problem: the others > > Yes, if you rely on notification daemon specialities, No need for long stories, I'm not relying on anything, I just want to see a bubble message on my desktop with notify-osd, because I like it, except for the fact that it does not take into account the timeout parameter passed from the application (while it easily could without breaking the unification purpose). > How does a developer know how his notification is going to look or > behave? Even though I like the new notification system, about this specific topic and about relying on the popup being show or having all the action, I might ask you why developers should use something that comes with no guarantee to work or to work exactly as they expected. -- notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 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