SMS Reply on desktop not working

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Nick Cross <kdeconnect at goots.org> wrote:
> On 07/11/16 13:53, Aleix Pol wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Nick Cross <kdeconnect at goots.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, I see this as well. Once the popup 'goes away' I have no way of
>>> retrieving the SMS to reply to. It would be really useful to access the
>>> SMS
>>> from the applet to reply to them .... although I'm not sure if thats
>>> possible?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 14/10/16 22:51, Adam Bark wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/10/16 10:36, Albert Vaca wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If you unpair and request pairing again from the phone, there should
>>>>> be a notification on the desktop. It uses action buttons in the
>>>>> notification similar to the missing Reply button. Do they appear?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think I understand what the problem is now. I can reply from the
>>>> temporary pop-up notification but I was expecting to able to do it from
>>>> the applet. Is that something that is coming?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Adam.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>> I'd say it's something to fix in Plasma, isn't it? Making sure that
>> notifications do go away forever.
>>
>> Would any of you be interested in looking into it? I'll be happy to help.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>
> Maybe I'm misinterpreting but I'm not sure thats it.
>
> The problem is not that notifications aren't going away, but that they are
> and there is no way of accessing the SMS Reply button.
>
> When I receive a text message I see a popup notification that has the reply
> button.  This soon disappears.

Precisely, we want Plasma not to discard them, right? (I'm assuming
you use Plasma)

>
> What I would like to see is:
>
> Allow the left click on the applet to bring up the menu and enhance
> messaging items to add a reply button. This would allow access to the SMS
> reply functionality *outside* of the notification popup.
>
> Alternatively, is it possible to access SMS directly, could there be a new
> UI to do that?

We don't want to store SMS in the plasmoid, do we? I'd say we should
see how we can use the notifications in a more smart way so that SMS
are properly dealt with over there.

OTOH, it's definitely possible to make a different UI. In git there's
already sms support in kdeconnect-cli, and we could add elsewhere. But
I wouldn't want random UI because we are not integrating properly with
the system.

Aleix