Well, I am one more now affected by this BUG. Yes, it is a BUG that doesn't seem to be addressed (or people don't want to). Maybe somebody is forcing their hands and they have to come up with justifications, which from what I read are changing over time (just like the documentation ;)).
One of the old arguments was that this was an option for 'developers', not users. Guess what? I'm a user and, in the Skype options, I can (actually, I could, but this BUG prevents me from doing so) specify the timeout of the notifications. Well, I guess I can't now. You might have changed the documentation, but "man notify-send" still mentions the (useless, i.e. BUGGY) "-t" option. I'm really tired of the total disregard and condescension towards the community that Ubuntu takes. This BUG is really not that hard to solve, but you just don't *want* to, despite the many many users asking for it. I am utterly disappointed. I can live with bugs, they just happen. What really gets to me is the attitude of Ubuntu towards its users. Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) your arguments are simply not good enough. You just keep jumping from place to place to justify the unwillingness of Ubuntu to solve this. Let me conclude: this is a BUG. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to notify-osd in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages 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$ To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/390508/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
