Re: w32-notification-notify and HAVE_DBUS

[Michael Albinus]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

Hi,

>> You can tell them that they don't want w32-notification-notify when
>> D-Bus is available, since the latter is superior, AFAIU.
>
> D-Bus doesn't supply desktop notifications, it's just a remote procedure
> call system.  For desktop notifications to function, an X desktop
> environment is also required, and those aren't available on MS Windows.

I don't believe that an X desktop is mandatory. All what's needed is a
D-Bus session service "org.freedesktop.Notifications" under MS-Windows.

How it is implemented doesn't matter. I don't know the D-Bus
implementations under MS-Windows, perhaps they are based on X
desktop. But this would be an implementation detail, and not an D-Bus
requirement.

JFTR.

Best regards, Michael.