Does Qt (plan to) support Gnome Notifications?
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Hello,
I am not a Gnome user but an upstream maintainer having some Gnome users.QSystrayIcon seems to support the "regular" systray on nearly all desktop environments. But GNOME does not work because it does not have a systray. It seems to have some kind of special/dbus related notification system. I don't want to add extra code for that.
So I'll ask if Qt have plans to extend the QSystrayIcon to also support that special GNOME way?
https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/notifications.html#using-notifications
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Hello,
can you share a bit more about your use case, i.e. what exactly doesn't work for you?
Do you havelibnotifyinstalled? -
Hello Axel,
thank you for reaching out. I think there was a misunderstand on my side about the "GNOME way". ;)I am upstream maintainer of Back In Time. A backup software indicating status of running backup jobs in the systray using QSystrayIcon without problems. Despite the fact that GNOME seems not to have a systray anymore. They are pointing to notification center blabla. I thought this is a replacement for systrays. But it seems it is not and this are just disturbing notification bubbles. That is not what I want.
I think if GNOME itself does not offer a real replacement for systrays then there is nothing that Qt could do about it.
I think my question was invalid.
Regards,
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Hi @buhtz,
Christian Buhtz, that should have rang me a bell. Heavy BIT user here. Your Qt UI is highly appreciated!
Do let me know if there is anything I can help with. Does it not work to just spark your status updates on DBus?
