I agree that an app should not be able to DOS the system. When an app has many notifications in the queue (i.e. they aren't updates or appends, they are distinct bubbles that are going to be displayed sequentially) then we should allow the notifications of other apps to jump ahead in the queue.
MPT, would you work with Mirco to specify an algorithm for that? Something like "if there are more than 3 notifications in the queue for an app, then they are downgraded one notch (i.e. critical to normal, normal to low). If there are more than 5 notifications from a single app in the queue, then they are downgraded two notches. And if there are more than 10 in the queue then any other app notification will go ahead of them. Mark -- design problem? infinite wait for long queue https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/334809 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Notify OSD Developers, which is subscribed to Notify OSD. Status in Notify OSD: Confirmed Status in “notify-osd” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: notify-osd I'm using pidgin-libnotify and I discovered a problem in notify-osd (maybe a design problem, not sure). When a buddy writes me a lot of lines (say 25) all messages are queued and showed in the bubbles. Every bubble stays there for 7 seconds. 7*25=almost 3 minutes. What happens is that if any other contact writes to me, the bubbles are scheduled too! And also the notifies sent through "notify-send" are. (Instead volume notifies are displayed below.) This is a problem, because it seems that an application can bring the monopoly of the notification bubbles. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 Package: notify-osd 0.8-0ubuntu4 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: notify-osd Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-team Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
