Re: [PATCH] Add notifications.el

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

Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> writes:

>
>> Maybe it's a bug in the notification daemon? It happened for every
>> notification I produced from Emacs on this machine. The notifications
>> also varied significantly. So in case of an error it wouldn't exactly be
>> a corner case which makes this possibility seem unlikely.
>
> Does it happend with the ones made from notify-send?
>
> Anyhow, nothing allows you to work-around the bug by putting reason
> &optional. Anybody can emit a wrong formatted signal on the dbus, even
> with dbus-send. Based on that, any D-Bus bad formatted signal/method
> call will raise an error.

Jan cannot work around this problem in his own code, because
`notifications-on-closed-signal' would already fail. A common trick is
to declare it as

  (defun notifications-on-closed-signal (&rest args) ...)

Then you can walk through `args' in your code, and set `id' and `reason'
as possible.

Best regards, Michael.