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>Timeout settings: the time notifications stay should also be
configurable: some people read faster than others, so the very-sensible
default (of x time per n characters) can be good, but some people maybe
like y time per n characters.

That would be wonderful. Implement that; put a high priority on it. Make
it happen.

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Title:
  Notify-osd looks are not customizable

Status in notify-osd package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: notify-osd

  At the moment the notify-osd looks are not configurable (not with a
  GUI, and as far as I can see not with  gconf and/or a configuration
  file).

  THis should be possible to do: in the first place with gconf (or
  configuration file) and in the longer term a GUI (maybe not all
  aspects, but at least some of them).

  Rationale:

  Color settings: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/334310?comments=all (Mirco has confirmed the problem and seems to work on a solution)
  Presentation settings: If notifications should be visible in fullscreen or not (and what priority should be shown) (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/402962)
  Font settings: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/notify-osd/+bug/335383 (is already being worked on...)
  Also things like blur and fade out settings should be configurable

  Timeout settings: the time notifications stay should also be
  configurable: some people read faster than others, so the very-
  sensible default (of x time per n characters) can be good, but some
  people maybe like y time per n characters.

  Placement settings (which is the real cause of the bug report: center-right is in my option very bad UI design (maybe it is just an experiment): Probably it is more noticeable than top-right but it is also more probable that it is in your way:
  While reading (a big text) the part I'm reading is often more or less in the center, so I can do 2 things when such a notification happens: Scroll down so I can read the text again, or move my mouse so it appears above the notification so I can read the text under it...
  It thought notify-osd was about "passive" notifications that didn't take your attention so you were not obliged to do anything, with the new (non-)sensible non-configurable default setting I have to react (sometimes) to a notification...

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