From: Xi Shen <davidshen84@gmail.com>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Does org-nofity uses dbus?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:12:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANO68EN-_-jFK7P1r9orv3OjArLtBnJKRd6GzvYEe5Ss230gnA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgFV9MVnovor4kQUZEZCwoGGsnwkngSur4ekZj1mMHh7XU-Cg@mail.gmail.com>
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I also think it is a good idea to add some functions in Emacs for Win32
platform, and let other's used those functions from elisp. Thanks~
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:02 AM Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 2016-06-22 14:16 GMT+02:00 Xi Shen <davidshen84@gmail.com>:
>
>> Well~that's good news. But I think dbus requires X11 to work. But in
>> Cygwin environment, people usually do not configure a full X11 environment.
>>
>
> No, dbus doesn't require X11 to work. Neither does emacs require Cygwin
> to work.
> Actually, Emacs compiles as a native Windows application (using MinGW32 or
> MinGW64) and it is also the case of dbus.
>
>
>> Besides, for org-notify, could dbus help it playing a notification sound
>> on Windows? Or popup a notification message?
>>
>>
> I guess it will work the same way it does elsewhere.
>
>
>
>> So what I am thinking is to get some Windows native behavior for
>> org-notify on Windows/Cygwin environment.
>>
>>
> I too think that a native, session only module that will provide the same
> interface as dbus could be interesting
> for Windows users. However, that shouldn't prevent those who want to use
> dbus to use it.
>
> AFAIU, using dbus, you could have a distant running emacs (ssh) session
> and get notifications on your local desktop,
> provided the right setup.
>
> Well, browsing the source code, I see that Eli Zaretskii has already
> implemented native win32 tray notifications.
> They are a small subset of the dbus notifications.
> However, he made them exclusive with dbus. I don't see the reason yet.
>
> Fabrice
>
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Thanks,
David S.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-23 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-21 6:31 Does org-nofity uses dbus? Xi Shen
2016-06-21 8:45 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-06-21 14:14 ` Xi Shen
2016-06-21 14:25 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-06-22 12:16 ` Xi Shen
2016-06-22 16:45 ` Nick Dokos
2016-06-22 17:02 ` Fabrice Popineau
2016-06-23 13:12 ` Xi Shen [this message]
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