Bug 588196 – kde-misc/colibri: should be a provider for virtual/notification-daemon

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Coacher 2016-07-07 03:27:52 UTC]

Hello.

Upstream provides org.freedesktop.Notifications.xml dbus interface [1]. It allows to use colibri as a general purpose notification service, i.e. without a KDE session. It would be nice to have it in Gentoo. This also makes kde-misc/colibri a provider for virtual/notification-daemon.

Please fix.

[1]: https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=colibri.git&a=blob&h=8ddb421cc346f3b29062434769526057dafd5780&hb=76c53dffad696e89edde2fd500dde0ace559bf3f&f=app%2Forg.freedesktop.Notifications.xml

[Comment 1 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-07-07 10:47:36 UTC]

The interface is used to generate an adaptor with qdbusxml2cpp. The package still doesn't create/install any .service file.

[Comment 2 Coacher 2016-07-07 11:39:53 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Palimaka (kensington) from comment #1)
> The interface is used to generate an adaptor with qdbusxml2cpp. The package
> still doesn't create/install any .service file.

If I manually copy the linked interface file to /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/, then colibri begins to act like notification service, i.e. notify-send displays correct notifications using colibri outside of KDE session.

[Comment 3 Coacher 2016-07-07 12:05:04 UTC]

I retested colibri without that interface file installed. It works as a generic notification service. org.freedesktop.Notifications interface is created.

I must have made a mistake back then. Been playing with different notification service implementations all day. Anyway colibri follows spec and could become a provider for virtual/notification-daemon, because spec permits manual service activation [1].

[1]: https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/

[Comment 4 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2016-07-07 14:05:52 UTC]

Thanks, fixed in git.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ce6833a142b0e25a48f922f2af13de859988de67