Comment 29 for bug 334809

Hello people,

I worked on the libnotify plugin for Exaile (0.2 & 0.3, but well, they're
not stable yet). The behaviour described by Mark is really not difficult to
implement. You just have to use update() instead of creating new
notifications, it's nothing hard (but notification-daemon is a big failure
with update(). It doesn't really manage it properly).

Now about my point of view on developers who don't want to bother with these
"details", as much as bother with the whole interface design, well, they're
just gonna lose their users to other apps with less features but easier to
use and looking nicer with a desktop. Users don't want exclusively features,
they also expect some coherence between the apps (æsthetically, but also for
menus, keyboard shortcuts, etc), and if an app looks different, it's just
not used by the vast majority. Making one's app behave nicely in an aimed
desktop is just as important as making it work at all.

Cordially, SD.

PS : if anyone wanna test the plugin there is a bug on LP where it's
attached ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/exaile/+bug/332999 ). This isn't the
latest version but I'm waiting for Exaile to hit 0.3 before recoding it
properly.
PS2 : video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGBAZXfbwB8