Gajim - 2024-07-10

I'm experiencing that mentions seem to randomly cause or not cause a desktop notification, but mentions seem to always cause my tray icon to change, at least lately. Are desktop notifications caused via dbus? I'd like to figure this out.

> Are desktop notifications caused via dbus? fjklp, looks like it: https://dev.gajim.org/gajim/gajim/-/blob/master/gajim/gtk/notification.py?ref_type=heads#L474 ✏

meson: I know it uses dbus - I see messages from gajim in dbus-monitor- but I don't know if that's the mechanism by which the notifications are caused. I don't know enough. It seems like every little thing that happens in any software causes dbus messages.

meson: sorry, I looked again. I guess this tells me that it *does* use dbus. Thanks.

dbussin

indeed

why is dbus important

its just a linux technology to pass messages between different applications

> why is dbus important Because I need to know whether to blame gajim for not generating desktop notifications or to blame the notification system, right? ✏ ↺

The idea being that I would compare dbus messages between when a desktop notification show and when it doesn't show and see if there is a difference

If you want, I can just make an issue and not bother with that. Easier for me.

fjklp: is there a way to reproduce it?

cal0pteryx: Not that I know of. But it seems to flip between producing or not producing a notifications often in chats where I know I *do* get notifications for mentions sometimes. I've been sending messages to myself in a muc with just my 2 accounts in it and it produces a notification every time, so far.

I don't know if there is some hidden rule on when and when not to produce notifications

fjklp: window focus / focused char plays a role

I believe I've had multiple different conditions where notifictions only sometimes show

1. someone else sends any message in a private group chat. Notification usually show up but now always. Tray icon always changes. 2. Being mentioned in a public group chat. Notifications usually show but not always. Tray icon always changes.

well, there are other conditions like gajim has focus or not

and these are chats that are *not* muted

Hmm, apparently selecting text only works for 1 message

epic: you can select several messages with the 3-dot hover menu and then press the copy button on the bottom ✏

oh lol

What determines a link color in a message? I couldn't find the right CSS class for it. Issue: On Adwait (Dark) it looks fine, but for Breeze (Dark) the color is too faint or has too less contrast against the background. ✏

meson: https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/#Gtk-3.0/classes/Label.html#Gtk.Label see CSS nodes section

Ah nice, there is a .keycap style class for shortcuts :)