Notifications Desktop -> Mobile

[Aleix Pol]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Holger Kaelberer <hk at elberer.de> wrote:
>
>
> On 02.07.2015 00:31, Aleix Pol wrote:
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>> 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.
>
>
> Fine, then I'll look into this.
>
> Yes, to my understanding desktop <-> desktop would be covered by that too.
>
> Holger
>
> BTW, as I'll be at Randa again this year and put on my schedule to better
> understand kdeconnect this is a good opportunity to get already a bit closer
> to your codebase. ;-)
>
> Do you already have set up some topics that you expect to address at Randa?
>
>
>>
>> In general, I'd like to see all plugin implementations as bi-directionals.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>

Cool, see you in Randa!

We don't have a specific plan for Randa, but I'd say we'll go through
the open tasks:
https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=45

Aleix