[digiKam-users] Configure notifications not working?

[dmpop at tokyoma.de]

Thank you Maik and Gilles! It all makes sense now. :-)

Best,
Dmitri

October 14, 2022 5:37 AM, "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>> I have to admit I've never tried it. But it works here with my native digiKam
>> developer version and a plasma desktop. I suspect that it also only works with
>> a Plasma KF5 desktop, as activation is done via the system notification widget.
> 
> Exactly. This is for Plasma desktop only.
> 
>> For a non-Kf5 desktop, we use our own notification widget. Gilles will correct
>> me if I'm wrong.
> 
> yes, through this wrapper :
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/tree/master/core/libs/notificationmanager
> 
> The configure notifications dialog comes from KDE frameworks and it's
> common to all KDE Applications, but it"s limited to Plasma desktop of
> course. This is why digiKam as a notification wrapper, but the KDE
> framework class does not use it as these classes are positioned at a
> lower level than digiKam while compiling.
> 
> Typically, the KDE notification module must be not used in digiKam
> with AppImage, because we don't know if Plasma desktop will be used in
> the background.
> 
> In fact the native Linux digiKam version will also be unusable with
> the KDE notifications module in another Linux desktop.
> 
> Note MacOS and Windows do not use the KDE notifications module at all.
> 
> Gilles