I'm not happy with the freedesktop notifications on Linux emitted by Chromium's own API that gets used by the NotificationService's native provider. The data that gets sent on the dbus interface includes NW.js specific stuff that can't be changed via the Chromium API, and this messes with some notification servers. For example, notifications don't get included in the notification history, and other stuff is unsupported or missing.
method call time=1680734599.628142 sender=:1.1270 -> destination=org.freedesktop.Notifications serial=11 path=/org/freedesktop/Notifications; interface=org.freedesktop.Notifications; member=Notify
string "Streamlink Twitch GUI"
uint32 0
string "file:///tmp/.io.nwjs.3ajVnx"
string "Streamlink Twitch GUI"
string "This is a test notification"
array [
string "default"
string "Activate"
]
array [
dict entry(
string "urgency"
variant uint32 1
)
dict entry(
string "desktop-entry"
variant string "nw"
)
dict entry(
string "image_path"
variant string "/tmp/.io.nwjs.4lmnVL"
)
dict entry(
string "image-path"
variant string "/tmp/.io.nwjs.4lmnVL"
)
]
int32 -1
Re-implementing direct dbus communication allows fixing this, but the notification provider would be far more complex. In the past, I had already implemented a freedesktop notification provider, so most of it could be reverted:
While I don't see any feature issues with the dbus-native dependency required for implementing it, there's no recent project activity and its dependencies are outdated as well, with some reported vulnerabilities.
I'm not happy with the freedesktop notifications on Linux emitted by Chromium's own API that gets used by the NotificationService's
nativeprovider. The data that gets sent on the dbus interface includes NW.js specific stuff that can't be changed via the Chromium API, and this messes with some notification servers. For example, notifications don't get included in the notification history, and other stuff is unsupported or missing.Re-implementing direct dbus communication allows fixing this, but the notification provider would be far more complex. In the past, I had already implemented a
freedesktopnotification provider, so most of it could be reverted:While I don't see any feature issues with the
dbus-nativedependency required for implementing it, there's no recent project activity and its dependencies are outdated as well, with some reported vulnerabilities.