Testing this branch.

Notifications seem to show as 'osd' style messages rather than messagebox windows.

Getting weird "X is known as X" messages.

Don't seem to be getting IM notifications.

Only limited testing though.

Apparently the ubuntu team were smoking crack when they
designed their notification implementation:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD?rev=143#org.freedesktop.Notifications.Notify

so… the plan was to use actions so that clicking "Ok"
told garak to display the conversation in question,
but ubuntu's notify-osd will insist on:

• displaying an alert instead of a notification
• adding ok and cancel buttons I didn't ask for

I suppose I can detect their implementation and
smack the notification code in the head to stop
it from asking for actions when things smell osd-ish.

Thoughts?

Vivek asked for the output of this:


(cdr (assoc
                    '("org.freedesktop.Notifications" .
                    "/org/freedesktop/Notifications") dbus-util-service-cache))

which is this:

(node nil
  (interface
   ((name . "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"))
   (method
((name . "Introspect"))
(arg
((name . "data")
  (direction . "out")
  (type . "s")))))
  (interface
   ((name . "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties"))
   (method
((name . "Get"))
(arg
((name . "interface")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "s")))
(arg
((name . "propname")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "s")))
(arg
((name . "value")
  (direction . "out")
  (type . "v"))))
   (method
((name . "Set"))
(arg
((name . "interface")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "s")))
(arg
((name . "propname")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "s")))
(arg
((name . "value")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "v"))))
   (method
((name . "GetAll"))
(arg
((name . "interface")
  (direction . "in")
  (type . "s")))
(arg
((name . "props")
  (direction . "out")
  (type . "a{sv}")))))
  (interface
   ((name . "org.freedesktop.Notifications"))
   (method
((name . "GetServerInformation"))
(arg
((name . "return_name")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "out")))
(arg
((name . "return_vendor")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "out")))
(arg
((name . "return_version")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "out")))
(arg
((name . "return_spec_version")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "out"))))
   (method
((name . "GetCapabilities"))
(arg
((name . "return_caps")
  (type . "as")
  (direction . "out"))))
   (method
((name . "CloseNotification"))
(arg
((name . "id")
  (type . "u")
  (direction . "in"))))
   (method
((name . "Notify"))
(arg
((name . "app_name")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "id")
  (type . "u")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "icon")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "summary")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "body")
  (type . "s")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "actions")
  (type . "as")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "hints")
  (type . "a{sv}")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "timeout")
  (type . "i")
  (direction . "in")))
(arg
((name . "return_id")
  (type . "u")
  (direction . "out"))))))