Comment 5 for bug 337389

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:15 +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Therefore, I think clients that want to bother handling truncation
> themselves (such as pidgin-libnotify) should use GetServerInformation to
> target specific servers (e.g. "if notification-daemon, truncate to X
> characters"), rather than assuming they'll all be the same size.

I imagine that this will only end up a backwards compatibility mode for
the current instance of notification-daemon. I believe that all
notification server implementations will start advertising this ability
for the reasons you stated. If there are going to be sets of
notification servers it would be nearly impossible for apps to keep up.