Comment 87 for bug 346095

My apologies if my remarks here have already been addressed, but can you blame me for not wanting to read all 86 posts when half of them or more are people bickering about whether or not this is a problem, and whose job it is to fix it?

I just wanted to say I switched to Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon, upgrading regularly through Karmic Koala) from Windows, among other reasons, because I could customize so many features of it without having to reprogram anything, build it myself, work it all out in code I don't understand, etc. It was a great compromise of customization and newbie-friendly UI that, it seemed, was getting better every upgrade. Being presented with a replacement app with less customization is disappointing.

And I'm guessing my next issue (that the Karmic settings menu has a Pop-Up Notifications config in it where I can tell it to change style and location, and then click Preview to see that it's exactly the same with every setting) has something to do with the difference between notification-daemon and notify-osd, and that someone detailed a workaround in the middle of the mess above.