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>>duncan bayne

The bug isn't in notify-send; this is part of libnotify which properly
implements the timeout specification (you can send the timeout
parameter).

The problem is in notify-osd (Canonical's notification front-end) which
does not properly implement the timeout specification (it will not
receive the timeout parameter) for no justifiable reason as I have
pointed out with quotations from Canonical's notification specs, the
freedesktop specs, and specific real-world use cases.

>>franglais.125

Welcome to the fold.

>> Everyone

Let me at this time express my appreciation for pantheon-notify, a
notification front-end from that does everything right. The
notifications do honor the timeout parameter and feature a close button
as well for when you want them to just go away. It does nothing less
than notify-osd can do and everything more.

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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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