On 2023-07-25 16:47, Michael Albinus wrote:

> Andrew Tropin <andrew@trop.in> writes:
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>>>> Perhaps we extend the arguments of `notifications-notify'? :app-icon
>>>> should be either a string (a file name, which is expanded), or a symbol,
>>>> which denotes one of the Standard Action Icons of the Icon Naming Specification.
>>>>
>>>> Your example would read in Lisp then
>>>>
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>> (notifications-notify :title "I am playing music" :app-icon 'multimedia-player)
>>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>>
>>>> WDYT?
>>>
>>> SGTM, thanks.
>>
>> Does it make sense to introduce edge-case and differentiate between
>> strings and symbols?  Removing expand-file-name seems to be backward
>> compatible and simple solution, but if there is some good reason for
>> symbol/string solution - let me know, I will update the patch.
>
> The D-Bus interface doesn't support file names like
> "~/src/emacs/etc/images/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/emacs.svg". So we
> must expand it.
>
> The notify-send command in a shell supports this, but this is another
> use case. I guess that the tilde expansion is performed by the shell.

Make sense, sent v2 with symbol value support to the root of the thread.

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Best regards,
Andrew Tropin