>>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. -- 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
