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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.

** Affects: notify-osd (Ubuntu)
     Importance: High
     Assignee: Mirco Müller (macslow)
         Status: Fix Released

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Notification entries are not appended unless a replace is used
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337394
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