Comment 10 for bug 346095
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| Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch) wrote Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference | #10 |
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(Get the code!)
Just a few other comments. First, my tone was much to harsh earlier. Sorry.
It is really, _really_ aggrivating to be told "your case doesn't matter to [us/me?] because it's just a small thing, no big deal, right?", especially when the "case" in question is something directly linked to how I am able to use the system.
That's made twice as bad by the fact that:
mbt@zest:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mono-debugger
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gnome-
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
After this operation, 12.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Uh, no. Removing notify-osd should *not* break ubuntu-desktop. If you install notification-
mbt@zest:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
mono-debugger
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
notify-osd* ubuntu-desktop*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 60 not upgraded.
After this operation, 872kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? ^C
mbt@zest:
In effect, what this is saying is "we know better than you. Thou shalt always have notify-osd installed if you want platform updates when you next do a dist-upgrade." Sure, that's fine for users that want to go through all that trouble. But I don't, and I sure know that true end-users don't.
In face of the fact that that's the way it is, notify-osd really needs to be customizable at least for the bit about where the damn notifications pop up. Otherwise, to users such as myself, this package is less than useless—it's damned annoying. I don't really care if you can theme notify-osd—it's attractive _and_ high-contrast, so at least that's good. It fits just about any visual theme that I can think of to apply, and it does its job well for what it does. It is slightly annoying that it doesn't display notifications all at once, and instead serially, but that's not even that huge an issue. What *is* an issue is the placement. This really isn't rocket science. I just have (significantly) less than perfect vision, and want the bloody things at the bottom right of my screen. Is that seriously too much to ask for a platform that is general-use and has a bug like bug 1?