So let me see if I understand this right so we can move on. The facts I see are these: * notify-send and the accompanying framework is incapable of serving timeouts below several seconds, by design, and that design will not be changed. * There is a need for shorter message timeouts.
Therefore you are hereby stating that the scope of notify-send is limited and anybody who is not pleased by those limitations should use other notification frameworks. I will also address your other remarks, to the point: * All who come in contact with Ubuntu will be affected by Ubuntu's choice in this matter. Developers and users alike, the distinction is irrelevant, since notify-send's limitations affect usability first of all. * This is no longer about the man page, in case anybody had any doubts. This is about notify-send being arbitrarily limited in its capabilities. * Your rewording about "conflicting" with notify-send does little to change the initial impression. The initial anger is obviously gone now, but I still do not appreciate the patronizing behind the statement. * As I'm sure you well know, Pidgin may be written in C but has plugins written in various languages, and one of those plugins is pidgin-libnotify. I don't really understand what your point was on this topic. * I do think notify-send is broken in Ubuntu, and I'm commenting now, on this bug. I think the title of the bug captures the letter, if not the spirit, of what is broken with notify-send, so it's the best place to comment. We can always open another bug report and rephrase it slightly differently if you wish to be pedantic but I don't see the point, really. * Color bubbles are not in any way related to the topic at hand, which is timeout. * I'm not really interested in how the Vista notifications work, I'm interested in notify-send. The Vista stuff may be just as broken, but I don't see how that's relevant. -- notify-send ignores the expire timeout parameter https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
