Notifications Desktop -> Mobile

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Holger Kaelberer <hk at elberer.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I discovered kdeconnect as a really useful tool. Thanks for what you did
> already!
>
> A feature I was missing so far, is the propagation of desktop notifications
> to mobile devices, e.g. notify me on mobile about messages in jabber/IRC
> etc. that is not available on the mobile side.
>
> On my desktop I currently use a small wrapper program for that, that proxies
> Notify calls seen on my desktop's DBUS org.freedesktop.Notification
> interface to a kdeconnect ping-message to my mobile device-ID.
>
> This might be useful to others, too.
>
> I could image to extend the notification-plugins on both sides like the
> following:
>
> - On desktop: Allow for 'posting' notifications (from applications other
> than "kdeconnect"), maybe extend the kcm stuff about a blacklist to allow
> for excluding some notification providers.
>
> - On mobile: Allow for receiving notification packets and maybe maintaining
> a notfications-backlog as is done on desktop side (and prohibit resending
> notfications back to other kdeconnect devices). Notification updates could
> be based on app_name+summary params from the
> org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify signature.
>
> What do you think?

I think it is interesting. Also Desktop <-> Desktop it could be useful as well.

In general, I'd like to see all plugin implementations as bi-directionals.

Aleix