# DnDBuster

A timer that notifies you - even if "do not disturb" is enabled.

## Application IDs

https://developer.gnome.org/documentation/tutorials/application-id.html

Used by

- GtkApplication

> identifying your application to the system, for ensuring that only one instance of your application is running at a given time, and as a way of passing messages to your application

- D-Bus

> to name your application on the message bus. This is the primary means of communicating between applications

- name of the .desktop file for your application

>  This file is how you describe your application to the system (so that it can be displayed in and launched by GNOME).

## .desktop entry

https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GNotification

The GNOME desktop environment needs a `.desktop` file that matches your applications ID. Otherwise, sent notifications are not displayed!

> Warning: gnome-shell uses desktop files to find extra information (app icon, name) about the sender of the notification. If you don't have a desktop file whose base name matches the application id, then your notification will not show up.

During development, we created a dummy vile at `~/.local/share/applications/de.p1st.dndbuster.desktop` with content:

```
[Desktop Entry]
Name=DnDBuster
Comment=A simple timer app
Exec=steam steam://rungameid/2707930
Icon=dndbuster-stopwatch
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Game;
```

Copy `watch-icon.svg` to `~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/dndbuster-stopwatch.svg`

## Alternatives

https://man.archlinux.org/man/notify-send.1.en

```shell
nix-shell -p libnotify
```
```shell
sleep 30m
notify-send -u critical -a PleaseDisturbTimer "Alert" "Time is over!"
```