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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410828

Title:
  OK and CANCEL buttons in fallback alert are ambiguous

Status in “notify-osd” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  I use the freedesktop.org DBus notification interface to submit
  notifications to Notify OSD.

  When submitting a notification with a timeout of zero or with custom actions, a fallback alert appears.
  This alert has an OK and a CANCEL button.

  To me it is unclear why there are 2 buttons, respectively what's their difference. To understand this, I listened for the DBus signal org.freedesktop.Notifications.NotificationClosed. This signal's 'reason' parameter
  gives the following values
  - press OK button: 3
  - press CANCEL button: 2
  - close alert window: 2

  The freedesktop notification spec describes the values as follows:
  2 - The notification was dismissed by the user.
  3 - The notification was closed by a call to CloseNotification.

  A reason value of 2 for CANCEL and "close alert window" seems to be
  appropriate. In contrast, OK and "The notification was closed by a
  call to CloseNotification" are not equivalent. With regard to other
  notification systems, I would not generally expect to have a positive
  action assigned to the reason value 3. But maybe this is a problem in
  the freedesktop notification spec.

  To be clear about user actions, I tried to add custom actions, but the
  problem is, that the OK and CANCEL buttons are still shown,
  additionally to the custom action buttons. Custom actions are a good
  thing to put some more information into actions (not only positive/OK
  or negative/CANCEL). However, this does not make sense if the OK and
  CANCEL buttons are still visible.

  To summarize, I would prefer to merge the OK and CANCEL buttons to a single button (e.g. OK or DISMISS) and/or
  to show _no_ standard buttons when custom action are used.

  Thanks for your time and kind regards,
  Oben

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