Hello, this is my hacked version of libnotify. It is supposed to be used with my notification-daemon engine:
http://github.com/tatofoo/notification-daemon-engine-coco
Well, it ignores requests from applications to set the notification position near an icon or widget.
For now it is just a commented out line, but in the next days I'll be adding a key to the gconf schema so you can enable or disable this hack.