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[Andrea Azzarone <1015208@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: notify-osd
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  baloon notifications are queued up and may end up being displayed ages
  later

Status in Notify OSD:
  New
Status in Unity:
  Invalid
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  OBSERVED

  When an application generates a baloon notification message (I don't
  know how they are called, toasts? those which appear within a rounded
  rectangle on the upper right corner of the screen just below
  notification area) and another previous one is still visible, the new
  one is queued and displayed later, and if in the mean time another
  message is generated, it is queued even further, and so on. They ALL
  are displayed, one after another, each one taking its full time, and
  you may end up accumulating a ridiculous amount of baloons that will
  be displayed when nobody even remembers what generated them.

  For example, VLC player generates a toast message each time it loops.
  I was playing a very short looped video for a few minutes. All the
  baloons have queued up and now, half an hour after having even closed
  VLC player, baloons generated half an hour ago are still showing up,
  one after another; addistionally they are preventing new baloons to be
  displayed (e.g. new messages in thunderbird) as they will be displayed
  as soon as the accumulated ones are over.

  
  EXPECTED
  When a baloon is generated and a previous one is still visible, one of two behaviours would be reasonable:
  A. kill the message being currently displayed and immediately display the new one, or
  B. immediately display the new one and shift the old one(s) downwards (the same as skype does, and practically all programs that have been displaying this kind of messages much before Ubuntu supported them at the OS level)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: unity 5.12-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  .proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
  .proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
  .proc.driver.nvidia.version:
   NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  295.40  Thu Apr  5 21:28:09 PDT 2012
   GCC version:  gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu9
  Architecture: i386
  CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,vpswitch,mousepoll,compiztoolbox,snap,place,resize,session,regex,grid,wall,move,gnomecompat,imgpng,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: compiz
  Date: Tue Jun 19 19:10:51 2012
  DistUpgraded: 2012-05-17 16:45:23,028 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: precise
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  GraphicsCard:
   NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 9500M GS] [10de:0405] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:15d2]
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  JockeyStatus:
   xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
   pkg:sl-modem-daemon - Software modem (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
   xorg:nvidia_current_updates - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (post-release updates) (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
  MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. M51Sn
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-26-generic root=UUID=173acbf5-26a0-49e3-8d2b-f1c142582cbf ro quiet splash
  SourcePackage: unity
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-17 (33 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/24/2007
  dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: 303
  dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.board.name: M51Sn
  dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.board.version: 1.0
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr303:bd12/24/2007:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnM51Sn:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnM51Sn:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
  dmi.product.name: M51Sn
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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