Re: Error handling in notifications-notify

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:

Hi Basil,

> However, I'm not sure what the best thing to do in notifications-notify
> is.  So far, it has returned nil for any type of error (unless
> debug-on-error is non-nil), thanks to its use of with-demoted-errors.
>
> Would it be too backward-incompatible to change this to
> dbus-ignore-errors or pinging notifications-service, as you say?
>
> If so, how's the following docfix instead?

No objection from my side, but maybe Julien wants to comment about?

>> In ELPA, there are several notification libraries. alert.el seems to be
>> the most advanced one, although it doesn't support w32-notification-notify.
>
> Indeed, and it isn't in GNU ELPA either, though I seem to recall its
> inclusion being discussed somewhere.

Perhaps we shall ask John about. For moving it to GNU ELPA, and for
w32-notification-notify support.

> Thanks,

Best regards, Michael.