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[matt <ninethirty@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree. I know this bug is already closed as "Won't Fix" because it's working as designed, but I think it's a faulty design. Making the notifications "light-weight" by giving the user no way to interact with them, even to dismiss them, isn't really "light-weight" at all. It's more intrusive and difficult to work with. I have no way of getting the notifications out of my way once I've seen them, so they stay there taking up 
I don't think it helps things at all to simply hold notifications of different priorities or lengths for different lengths of time. A notification should stay visible until a user has had a chance to see it.  How long it takes the user to see it depends on else they're doing, and there's no way for either the system nor the application to know what else the user is doing -- are they currently reading something and waiting until they get to the end of a paragraph to glance at the notification, or did they look at it right away?  You don't know, and you can't, so err on the side of longer notifications and give them a "dismiss" button.  

To point: when I first installed Ubuntu 14.04, one of the first pieces
of advice I got was to install a patched version of NotifyOSD that would
let you customize notifications (including dismissing them).  When
that's the advice that people are giving to new users, I think you have
a design problem....

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381416

Title:
  notify-osd should have a close button

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

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: notify-osd

  As simple as that. The new notification system works fine, but it really bugs me that I'm forced to wait for those little messages to fade away by themselves. Should I suggest this somewhere else?
  Thanks

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