DnDBuster
A timer that notifies you - even if "do not disturb" is enabled.
ToC
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=gnome-mines
Icon=dndbuster-stopwatch
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Application;
Copy watch-icon.svg to ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/dndbuster-stopwatch.svg
GTK resources
mypy
https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started.html
mypy src/dndbuster/app.py
Alternatives
https://man.archlinux.org/man/notify-send.1.en
nix-shell -p libnotify
sleep 30m
notify-send -u critical -a PleaseDisturbTimer "Timeout" "The time is over and your do-not-disturb mode just got busted!"