Comment 5 for bug 346095

Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:02:03 -0000
> Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> We are sorry that Jaunty alpha 5 accidentally shipped with the
>> "Notification Settings" utility that applied only to notification-
>> daemon, when 9.04 is not going to ship with notification-daemon. But
>> this mistake has been fixed since before alpha 6 (bug 332014). So this
>> is not a regression: the bubble position wasn't graphically
>> customizable in 8.10, and it won't be graphically customizable in
>> 9.04 either. It's not reasonable to say that Notify OSD doesn't
>> "bother to see if I had settings from previously", where "previously"
>> means "a bug in an alpha release".
>>
>
> Previously (read: under Intrepid) my notifications came from the bottom
> right and stacked up. notify-osd gets it all wrong. What makes you
> guys think you know what I want on my system better than I do?
>
> This notification system really rubs me the wrong way, and the
> snobbishness surrounding it does, too.
>
> Whatever. If it doesn't get fixed, I (or someone else) will fix it in
> a PPA, more likely than not.
>
>

No need for such harsh tone and strong emotions just because your
question was misunderstood.

We designed the notification system with the default setting (panel at
the top) in mind. The beauty of free software is that you can modify it
if you want to, to best suit your needs...

M.