My two cents:

I found this bug because I noticed that notifications were ignoring my
timeout on a script I was writing.

Since this discussion seems to be pretty abstract, I'll provide a
concrete usage case.  I'm a 4th grade teacher and I use a projector
hooked up to a tablet pc.  Normally, I have a jar with Popsicle sticks
on which I've written the names of my students.  I pull a Popsicle stick
to ensure that I'm calling on them randomly.  This year, as I gear up
for a new school year, I decided to write a script that pops up a random
name from a list of my students.  I tied it to an application launcher
icon.  It works.

At first I was using a zenity info box to display the name, but it's
ugly and requires you to click okay to dismiss it.  This seems like a
good case for a notification bubble to me.  Because I'm expecting it and
it only contains a student's first name, it doesn't need to stay on the
screen for long.  Also, it's important that it doesn't, because
notifications are queued and if someone is absent, I need to be able to
get another name quickly, so we're not all sitting around waiting for
the bubble to disappear.  I ended up using the:

<code>notify-send --hint=string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:
"message"</code>

solution listed above, which is fine.

But I feel like my case sort of underlines the point made by many people
above.  I spent twenty minutes messing around with the timeout argument,
because, as a user, I expect command line arguments to work (I wasn't
really aware that notify-send was a separate component from the
notification system itself).  Then I found this thread.  Then I had to
read through most of it to find an undocumented solution to my problem.

I wish that it just respected the timeout argument.

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