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@mpt: The problem isn't just that some devs chose to ignore a spec. It's
also the fact that they told nobody about it; and other devs are forced
to waste time discovering this fact.

Either follow the spec; or change the spec so people will know what to
expect. Both variants are one-liner patches. It's an extremely simple
fix, one way or another. For the love of God, it's been three and a half
years. Can we please stop pretending that this isn't a problem and just
apply either fix?

[On a side note, yes, it is poor programming to ignore an API and to
think one comment in one implementation makes it alright. Giving
examples of other bad programming is not going to change that.

Also, I see 143 people affected by this bug; all of them are most likely
programmers who wanted to use timeout_expire. How many programmers are
working on notifyOSD and Gnome Shell, combined? Who's in the minority,
again?]

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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$

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