I have a temporary workaround for pidgin-libnotify. I realize this
probably isn't the place to put it but opening a new bug against pidgin-
libnotify seemed like a bad idea because it isn't a bug on their end.
It's just a one line change anyways for those impatient devs like me :P
I'd recommend putting in your ~/.purple/plugins instead of system wide
since this patch should never be put into any package :P

** Attachment added: "Temporary workaround for NotifyOSD appending in 
pidgin-libnotify"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24708071/append-patch.diff

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Notification entries are not appended unless a replace is used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337394
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Status in Notify OSD: Confirmed

Bug description:

Currently in the notify-osd code an append is only done if the type of update 
to the notification is a replace or update operation.  This is incorrect and 
shoudl be changed to match the spec which states:

"Whenever there are two or more notification bubbles in the queue that have the 
same title and come from the same program (as identified by its D-Bus ID), and 
both of them have hinted that they allow concatenation, Notify OSD should merge 
them into a single bubble"
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Concatenating%20existing%20bubbles

The important phrasing here is "two or more notification bubbles" not an 
updated bubble.

The reason for this is that the way that it's implemented now removes some 
capability from applications.  The application needs to have the ability to 
update appended bubbles.  So if I have two bubbles:

a) "hello"
b) "hi there"

And I decide that I want to change b to "oh, goodbye", if the append hint is 
used, and replace is used to specify append, the result will be:

hello
hi there
oh, goodbye

When the correct result should be

hello
oh, goodbye

This is currently how the Pidgin-libnotify plugin sends bubbles, it ensures 
that all messages are unique bubbles but will reuse bubbles for cases like sign 
on and sign off so that they get updated properly.

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