The title is used as the alternative text in icon-only situations.

** Changed in: notify-osd
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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An "alt_text" hint should be introduced
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334272
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Bug description:
notify-osd introduces icon-only notifications. Since no text is supplied, there 
is no way of determining the non-visual meaning of these icons.

Often, it could be derived from the "synchronous" hint (like in brightness and 
volume), but the text supplied by "synchronous" could be arbitrary, and there 
is no guarantee that the icon-only notification will supply the "synchronous" 
hint at all.

Potentially, the alternative text could be determined from the supplied icon 
file name (assuming the file name has real meaning). But this is not always the 
case since direct pixbufs could be sent to notify-osd with no associated file 
name. In any case, the Bubble class does not currently store the file name 
after the icon is rendered to a pixbuf.

Besides being hackish, and error prone, the two methods above do not provide a 
means of localization for the utilizing applications.

That is why I propose the "alt_text" hint. For example:
notify-send " " -i notification-audio-volume-medium -h int:value:75 -h 
string:synchronous:volume -h string:alt_text:Volume

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