Bug 10204

Summary: Overload Notify method to allow calling from dbus-send
Product: Galago Reporter: Stuart Langridge <sil-freedesktop>
Component: notification-daemonAssignee: Christian Hammond <chipx86>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Stuart Langridge 2007-03-06 16:28:58 UTC 
It would be very useful if the Notify D-Bus method for the notification-daemon was overloaded to allow it to be called with fewer parameters. At the moment you must pass all parameters, including an actions ARRAY and a hints DICT. The dbus-send command-line utility can't handle array and dict parameters, which means that it's not possible to call Notify using dbus-send. The notify-send program only requires a summary and can optionally take a body: providing an overloaded Notify that can take just summary, body, expire-time, icon (indeed, all STRING and INT32 parameters) would let dbus-send call it.

I could use notify-send itself to do the call (I'd like to display notifications from PHP, and there are no PHP D-Bus bindings), but it's not packaged with libnotify or notification-daemon (at least not on Ubuntu) which makes it less likely that it will be available, and I was hoping to avoid making it a dependency.
Comment 1 chemtech 2013-03-26 07:59:58 UTC 
Stuart Langridge,
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