>>mpt It's pretty clear that the majority opinion is to have this fixed by IMPLEMENTING the timeout parameter, not sweeping it under the rug.
The #1 reason people end up here is looking for some way to make Notify- OSD's notifications go away faster. -- 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 Status in notify-osd package in Arch Linux: New 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 : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp