[Gambas-user] Gio icon, GIcon serialized for DesktopPortal Notify?

[Bruce Steers]

On Sun, 26 Nov 2023 at 00:59, BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 26/11/23 10:38 am, Bruce Steers wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Nov 2023 at 23:53, BB <adamnt42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay I get
>  Notification Daemon "MATE" "1.26.0" "1.1"
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> So that's the daemon you use and you can tailor your needs to that
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> i can apparently send just system icon names but again it needs to be a
> "serialized GThemedIcon"  whatever that is. just an icon name string for
> all accounts but somehow gio serialized.
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Nope , it turns out that what i need is the correct stock-icon names lol.
i had been trying using the stock name question ,, then discovered it
doesn't exist but works using dialog-question
Doh!

So i can simply use ["icon": "info"] or ["icon": "dialog-question"] or
["icon": "dialog-warning"]

Probably like the KDE notification daemon that I could never get working
> with a lot of things including the icon (I seem to recall it was something
> similar about the icon needing to be converted to a string.
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> I think the code needs to be generic though, something that'll work on any
> system.
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> Not likely, it is a user desktop preference. 😷 For example, I've tried:
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> https://github.com/Toqozz/wired-notify
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> https://github.com/emersion/mako (Wayland, bluh)
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> https://github.com/dunst-project/dunst
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> the ugly KDE default
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> and others
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> each has their own way of doing things, some dont even use the
> org.freedesktop dbus thingo (which really is just an interface
> specification suggestion)
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> anyway, best of
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i thought that was the point of desktop,portal to be like a compatibility
interface  (I know, famous last words lol)

b
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Cheers b :)

p.s. Voutts post just arrived with his suggestion to use libgio calls, may
> hel
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Indeed , if i can get it working hopefully i can make a GBytesIcon and use
my own images not just stock ones.

cheers all
BruceS
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