I came to this thread because I'm really annoyed by an add-on to
Thunderbird, named Gnome Integration, that displays a bubble every time
I receive a email, using notify-send that stays on my screen for not
less than 10 seconds.

Well that's ok if it's just one email but, when I first start my
computer every morning, there are always tens or hundreds of emails
waiting to be downloaded by Thunderbird. Every single email creates a
bubble and they are displayed in sequence for 10 seconds each one. Sum
that up and you'll have an idea of my ordeal. It's common that I finish
scanning the whole lot of emails and switch to something else before all
the bubbles are gone.

The add-on has a configuration gui and one of its options is the time
out. I was getting annoyed that whatever the amount of time I set there,
there was no change in behaviour and I started googling for a solution.
That's how I came across this bug report.

It makes me sad that no interest is shown by the Ubuntu team to either
tackle this issue or, at least, give us (users and developers alike) a
feasible alternative to get what we want/need.

I went through this hole thread looking for an easy solution for my
issue and the only one I could find was a patch to notify-osd to allow
setting different time outs. The problem with that is that, although I'm
a developer for other platforms, I don't have the smallest clue as how
to apply the patch and recompile the package. So, I think my only
solution is to disable (or uninstall?) the add-on until there's a
solution to this or until I find another add-on that does the same as
Gnome Integration without using notify-osd.

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