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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Notify OSD was inefficiently tracking its bugs in two places, the
project and the Ubuntu package, an example of bug 76416. Now we've
migrated to tracking bugs just on the package. To briefly list your
resulting errors, (1) that this is a bug is assuming the question, (2)
the cases described in this report are cases for which *any*
asynchronous notification system wouldn't work reliably, (3) describing
how to satisfy their need is not failing to recognize their need, (4)
taking offense does not demonstrate that you are right, (5) "Canonical"
has only two "n"s, (6) I have spent much more time on this bug report
than someone who doesn't care would, (7) the silent majority does not
necessarily agree with you or even care, and (8) other OSes don't let
app developers customize notification durations either.

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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” 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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