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Re: w32-notification-notify and HAVE_DBUS


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: w32-notification-notify and HAVE_DBUS
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:35:22 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Sorry, I don't understand the above.  You seem to be saying that
> notifications are unrelated to D-Bus?  But doesn't
> notifications-notify work by using D-Bus capabilities?

That's what I'm trying to articulate, yes.  notifications-notify merely
employs D-Bus in the role of a mechanism for communicating with the
desktop environment; D-Bus itself doesn't provide notifications itself.

> From my POV, w32-notification-notify thingy is not important enough to
> care about it.  Newer Windows versions moved to a completely different
> machinery for desktop notifications, which Emacs doesn't support (and
> AFAICT cannot support, as using them requires C++).  In all the years
> since I wrote that code, I've heard no complaints and no evidence of
> this feature being used by anyone.  So I see no reason to risk
> potential problems by removing the condition.

The catalyst for my question was an inquiry by a user regarding the
absence of `w32-notification-notify' from a Windows build with D-Bus.


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