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[Vanessa Lee <390508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be great if they would accept that, but this is an issue they
"won't fix".

If they did accept your manual page fix, someone down the line would
say, "hey, wouldn't it be great if we could add a timeout option?"

Then the cycle of madness repeats (with a longer circumferance).

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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
Status in notify-osd package in Arch Linux:
  New

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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