[PATCH] desktop entry spec: Add "UsesNotifications" key

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Mon Feb 16 08:57:17 PST 2015


On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 06:39 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015, at 06:21, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Huh? Are we talking about the same spec[1] that already exists and you
> > implemented, and that we're discussing on xdg at lists.freedesktop.org?
> > [1]:
> > https://people.gnome.org/~mccann/docs/notification-spec/notification-spec-latest.html
> 
> Yes and no.  The linked spec is not the one that I that I had any
> involvement in at all.
> 
> The one that we created recently is not (yet) a freedesktop spec.  It
> uses org.gtk.Notifications.
> 
> org.freedesktop.Notifications is
> https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/ (for which the canonical
> version is apparently in Jon's homedir -- the one you link above).  I've
> never had any involvement at all with this spec.

The canonical version is in libnotify's git tree:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libnotify/tree/docs/notification-spec.xml

> GNotification will use one or the other, depending on what is
> implemented by the system.



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