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Re: D-Bus and notifications
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Michael Albinus |
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Re: D-Bus and notifications |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:55:35 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Garreau, Alexandre" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
Hi Alexandre,
> I wanted to get Gnus warn me of some personal mails by sound and others
> with delay, but I noticed the “urgency” flag in freedesktop
> notifications spec is not urgency but importance, the “timeout” only is
> about displaying, and the “sound-name” is not a conditional hint but an
> imperative depending on capabilites, I guess, and the API stays quite
> imperative and not that much semantic, so there isn’t much freedom for
> notification server…
>
> I wanted to experiment more flexibility, so I’d like to know if dbus.el
> can be used not only to have a notif client but also a server, so that
> the notifications would go to emacs instead of, say, dunst, that I
> wouldn’t use anymore.
>
> In that case, could I experiment some new hints or are the specs
> hardcoded in C somewhere, like in dbus?
Read the D-Bus manual of Emacs: (info "(dbus)")
It gives you the full flexibility to design your interface. Chapter
"Offering own methods" is about the server part.
Best regards, Michael.