Hello from 2020. Under KDE Plasma those timeouts work perfectly (including delicate way of signalling that they are on their way towards expiring) and I use them gladly.
Regarding purpose: I frequently use notify-send in my scripting to trigger notification that some build, tests, compilation, or sth finished. And, for example, info about finished compilation should flash and disappear, but info about failed major build is another story and should persist much longer.
Hello from 2020. Under KDE Plasma those timeouts work perfectly (including delicate way of signalling that they are on their way towards expiring) and I use them gladly.
Regarding purpose: I frequently use notify-send in my scripting to trigger notification that some build, tests, compilation, or sth finished. And, for example, info about finished compilation should flash and disappear, but info about failed major build is another story and should persist much longer.