Re: [new patch] [PATCH] make org-notify support for macOS desktop notification

[stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com>]

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Hi Chris, thanks for your work. I have a question, will your patch of notification code be merged to upstream?
If yes, I think my patch will be not necessary. If no, then I think add a my workaround for macOS is considerable.

> On Jul 7, 2021, at 2:23 AM, Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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