Samuel Onoja
ab6bf8b961
Keep notification actions and dismiss controls visible, compact and animate history, and add themed icon controls and grouping. Include notification settings, session integration and documentation, on-demand workspaces, and performance baseline notes.
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47 lines
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# Notifications
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Ferese Shell provides themed notification cards and an in-session history panel.
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Cards appear beneath the bar on the focused output and follow the selected theme.
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Click the notification icon in the bar to open history, toggle Do Not Disturb, or
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clear notifications. Escape or the close button closes the history panel.
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Notifications use the standard `org.freedesktop.Notifications` D-Bus interface.
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Existing apps and `notify-send` work without Ferese-specific commands:
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```sh
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notify-send --app-name=Ferese --icon=dialog-information "Hello" "Your desktop notification"
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```
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Up to three popup cards are visible at once. History keeps the most recent 100
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notifications in memory and clears when the shell exits. Hovering a popup pauses
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its timer. Critical notifications bypass Do Not Disturb and do not expire unless
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the sender supplies a timeout. App action buttons emit the standard action signal;
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a replacement updates the same notification ID. Transient messages are removed
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from history when they close.
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Settings → Notifications controls popup visibility, the initial Do Not Disturb
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state, and the default timeout. The bar's Do Not Disturb toggle is temporary;
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changing the Settings option saves the preference for future sessions. Apps can
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request their own timeout, including no timeout.
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```kdl
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notifications {
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show-popups #true
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do-not-disturb #false
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timeout-ms 6000
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}
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```
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The timeout must be between 1000 and 30000 milliseconds. Hiding popups still
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records notifications in history. Appearance follows the Ferese theme.
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Only one notification server can own the D-Bus interface. The Ferese session
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launcher stops the SwayNotificationCenter user service before starting its shell.
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For a manually started shell, stop that service with `systemctl --user stop
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swaync.service`. If another server already owns the interface, Ferese leaves it
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running and logs that native notifications are unavailable.
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This implementation supports plain text, app icons, urgency, transient/resident
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hints, actions, replacements, and close signals. It does not advertise rich body
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markup, embedded image data, notification sounds, or history persistence.
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