I was not out to program anything the day I found out about this problem. I was writing a shell script just to get something displayed on screen after a key press. I found out about notify-osd and used it, it took 5 seconds for me to figure out how to use it.
Then I realized that notifications were backlogged and I couldn't figure out why. notify-send did not warn that the expiration timeouts were being ignored. If you call me a programmer just for writing a shell script I feel disproportionately-honored. It's just a shell script, that I spent two days trying to figure out what was wrong and my time is valuable, there was no notice that an option was being ignored. My gripe is that it was being ignored and no warning was being printed as it was. That will waste a lot of people's time, and cause a lot of users to wonder who the bad programmer was to see a notification on screen repeat for several minutes and no way to get rid of it. My workaround for killing the backlog stack was: #!/bin/bash pkill notify-osd notify-send "Current value is $VALUE" -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to notify-osd in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 Title: notifyOSD ignores the expire timeout parameter Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Invalid Status in Message Web: New Status in Notify OSD: Won't Fix Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: libnotify-bin adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ apt-cache policy libnotify-bin libnotify-bin: Installed: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.4.5-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ cat notify-send.c | grep expire_timeout static glong expire_timeout = NOTIFY_EXPIRES_DEFAULT; { "expire-time", 't', 0,G_OPTION_ARG_INT, &expire_timeout, notify_notification_set_timeout(notify, expire_timeout); adyroman@panther:~/libnotify-0.4.5/tools$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/390508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
