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From: Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>
To: stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>, Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [new patch] [PATCH] make org-notify support for macOS desktop notification
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 14:23:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <89A2389D-0283-4C12-B80D-831730ABB2A2@chopps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1CCC83B2-3EFB-4221-9543-03A7BA935C70@gmail.com>

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It supports imagemagick (specify —with-imagemagick), and it includes svg by default, I simply forked the railwaycat version and added the native notification code.

Thanks,
Chris.

> On Jul 6, 2021, at 11:30 AM, stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion. Does your Emacs build supports imagemagick image view and svg feature support? Because company-mode now have built-in icons support. This is the reason that I switch from https://emacsformacosx.com/ <https://emacsformacosx.com/> to Homebrew cask Emacs version.
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2021, at 12:21 PM, Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org <mailto:chopps@chopps.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Please consider: I added full native notification support to the popular OS X Emacs build available in homebrew. This supports rewrites notifications-notify defun to use the native code rather than dbus, and so everything "Just Works".
>> 
>> Info can be found here:
>> 
>> https://github.com/choppsv1/homebrew-emacsmacport <https://github.com/choppsv1/homebrew-emacsmacport>
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris.
>> 
>> stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com <mailto:numbchild@gmail.com>> writes:
>> 
>>> Here is the new patch which invokes notifications though Emacs built-in API `ns-do-applescript`.
>>> 
>>> [2. text/x-patch; 0001-org-clock.el-Make-org-notify-support-macOS-notificat.patch]...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 6, 2021, at 8:06 AM, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com <mailto:theophilusx@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com <mailto:numbchild@gmail.com>> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jul 5, 2021, at 7:55 PM, Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com <mailto:manikulin@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 05/07/2021 10:50, stardiviner wrote:
>>>>>>> I updated the patch, I found the package `osx-lib` contains solution.
>>>>>>> So I removed the directly osascript process invocation.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have no objections any more. On the other hand I have no access to macOS, so
>>>>>> I have not tested this patch. Feel free to ignore comments from this message,
>>>>>> they are mostly matter of taste.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I expect that a simple script "notify-send" may allow to avoid modification of
>>>>>> code. Something like (untested, unsure concerning "quoted form of ...")
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> #!/usr/bin/env osascript
>>>>>> display notification (item 1 of argv)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> However if osx-lib in is installed automatically, it may be more convenient.
>>>>>> Unsure if some of currently supported linux distributions have notify-send
>>>>>> that can not handle title as the first argument.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -	((fboundp 'notifications-notify)
>>>>>>> +	((and (eq system-type 'gnu/linux) (fboundp 'notifications-notify))
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Does it mean that `notifications-notify' is bound but it does not work on
>>>>>> macOS? If so, maybe it is better to put new clause for 'darwin above and to
>>>>>> drop 'gnu/linux here. From my point of view, it is preferable to avoid
>>>>>> additional requirement for `notifications-notify'. If someone will create a
>>>>>> feature request for `notifications-notify' for macOS, it will just work
>>>>>> without installing of additional packages as soon as such feature is
>>>>>> implemented.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> I indeed tried `notifications-notify`. And it does not work, reports error that
>>>>> it needs dbus. PS. I used the Homebrew formulae version Emacs.
>>>>> I considered the order of conditions. Because notifications and notify-send etc
>>>>> requires dbus. So I guess only Linux supports that. So add system-type detection
>>>>> will be better. WDYT?
>>>> 
>>>> I think you can add dbus support to macOS using homebrew and that might
>>>> resolve the issue. At the very least, this will need to be investigated
>>>> because otherwise, adding this patch may break configurations for users
>>>> who have added dbus support via homebrew and have notifications working,
>>>> but have not installed the osx-lib package.
>>>> 
>>>> My only small concern with your proposed changes is that it will add a
>>>> dependency on a new package osx-lib, which I think is only available in
>>>> melpa. At the very least, this will need to be documented somewhere.
>>>> However, I'm not sure what the situation is wrt adding code which
>>>> depends on an external package which is not available in either elpa or
>>>> nongnuELPA? As org mode is a part of GNU Emacs, I suspect that any code
>>>> which 'encourages' the use of melpa packages will not be acceptable.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Tim Cross
>>>> 
>> 
> 


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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-04  0:23 [PATCH] make org-notify support for macOS desktop notification stardiviner
2021-07-04  5:48 ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-07-05  3:50   ` stardiviner
2021-07-05 11:55     ` Maxim Nikulin
2021-07-05 22:36       ` stardiviner
2021-07-06  0:06         ` Tim Cross
2021-07-06  1:37           ` stardiviner
2021-07-06  8:12             ` Tim Cross
2021-07-06  1:45           ` [new patch] " stardiviner
2021-07-06  4:21             ` Christian Hopps
2021-07-06 15:30               ` [new patch] " stardiviner
2021-07-06 18:23                 ` Christian Hopps [this message]
2021-07-08  0:00                   ` stardiviner
2021-07-08  8:59                     ` Christian Hopps
2021-07-08  9:35                       ` STOP this patch for now stardiviner
2021-07-08 12:02                         ` Christian Hopps
2021-07-06 12:13             ` [PATCH] make org-notify support for macOS desktop notification Maxim Nikulin
2021-09-26  8:52             ` [new patch] " Bastien
2021-09-30 15:01               ` Max Nikulin

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