Ubuntu
notify-osd package

  1. Bug #346095
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 346095

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Neil Broadley (scaine) wrote : Re: notify-osd doesn't honor my preference

Pardon my inexperience with launchpad, but if this bug has been marked as "invalid", does that effectively close discussion? I notice that the status has not been changed to "wontfix", so is this still a valid bug. If not, has another bug against usability regarding this issue been created and can it be linked to from here? That is, if this bug really is "invalid", then have other bugs been created to address for example :

1. Removing this system is impossible without breaking the ubuntu-desktop meta package (and others it would appear, like gnome-power-manager, and in my case, bizarrely the "Listen" media player, but not Rhythmbox for some reason).
2. Wishlist for positioning
3. Usability bugs against, for example, the length of time a notification stays on the screen (too short for my young sons to actually read them). There just can't be a "sane default" for the length of time some text stays on the screen... people are too diverse. And you can't argue that "it doesn't matter because it's not a big deal if you missed it", because in that case, why bother with putting them on the screen in the first place?

There are probably more, but I'm worried that serious issues surrounding this system are being swept under the rug in the run up to beta.