GNOME Goal: Notification Sources
Guidelines
For https://live.gnome.org/Design/SystemSettings/Notifications, we want to be able to filter notifications by application. This will give users more fine-grained control over notifications, compared to the current all-or-nothing switch, and will improve the user experience with notifications in GNOME.
To implement this filtering, we need to have a way to determine which application sent a notification. The Notification spec defines a desktop-entry hint for this purpose. Unfortunately, this hint is almost unused.
In addition to that, we need a way to know that the application is capable of sending notifications before that's ever done, so applications need to expose the X-GNOME-UsesNotifications key in their desktop files.
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This goal affects all applications that send notifications with libnotify or by calling the org.freedesktop.Notifications API directly. To fix an application, call
notify_notification_set_hint (n, "desktop-entry", g_variant_new_string (desktop_id));
for each NotifyNotification, before the notify_notification_show() call. Here, desktop_id should be the basename of the applications desktop file. E.g. rhythmbox installs /usr/share/applications/rhythmbox.desktop, so the desktop_id should be "rhythmbox".
Then, add
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true
to the same desktop file that was referred to in the set_hint_string() call above.
Comments before approval
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Status of this goal
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<: #ff8080> todo |
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