Issues with notifications on KDE Connect

[Albert Vaca]

The ideal thing with notifications would be to integrate with the Windows
10 notifications API, but it requires quite a bit of work (I think it would
be a good Google Summer of Code project, if anyone is interested!).

On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 4:01 PM Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:49 PM Carlos Solís <csolisr at azkware.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello everyone! First time posting here. I'm currently testing KDE
> > Connect on Windows and so far it works well, with two exceptions. File
> > transfers don't quite work, neither on Windows nor on my Archlinux
> > partition. And notifications do work but with certain caveats, namely
> > that they get displayed for only a pair of seconds, are not stored
> > anywhere due to lack of integration with Windows' notifications, and
> > most importantly don't display their contents or allow interacting in
> > any other way but dismissing them by a click. Hoping to see if it was
> > possible to manually configure the notifications, I installed Craft and
> > rebuilt both KDE Connect and knotifications, but I still found no way to
> > configure the notifications themselves. For starters, is it possible to
> > configure it manually? Or do I need to compile systemsettings in order
> > to configure it? Because in the case of the latter, compiling
> > systemsettings on Windows currently fails due to a KF5 version mismatch.
> >
> > Hoping to find some information on the topic,
> > - Carlos Solís
>
> Hi Carlos,
> Welcome!
>
> (CC'ing KDE Connect)
>
> Maybe it would be possible to create a notifications dialog ad-hoc for
> KDE Connect like many applications have.
>
> Regarding file transfers, I'd recommend opening a bug report,
> especially if it's not working on linux, because it should be working.
> And if you can investigate a bit how it fails, this will make it much
> easier to fix in case there's something that needs changing.
>
> Aleix
>
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