On plasma, plasma-desktop provides that service, on Gnome a different service.So installing the service is only interesting on Windows or mac where there is no such service registered or for testing on Linux. The service registers as a notification service which then is able to receive free desktop notifications and display them using a backend.
> Subject: Re: Please review Snorenotify (Finish Incubating) > To: vonr...@kde.org; kde-core-devel@kde.org > From: kensing...@gentoo.org > Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 23:14:23 +1100 > > On 19/11/15 09:48, Hannah von Reth wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Mario guided me until now through the incubation process and we think it > > is time to move Snorenotify from playground to extragear. > > Snorenotify is a notification framework supporting Linux, Windows and > > Mac OSX. > > It is not meant to replace Knotifications, it is more targeted on Qt > > applications without dependency to the plasma desktop, so it might > > become a backend for Knotifications. > > > > I guess you can find the most important information here > > https://community.kde.org/Incubator/Projects/Snorenotify. > > > > Besides Snorenotify there is also Snoretoast, a sub project of > > Snorenotify, https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=snoretoast.git. > > Snoretoast is a command line application and used within Snorenotify > > for the Windows Toast notifications. > > The application can only be build using the Microsoft compiler. > > > > So it would be great if Snorenotify could become a official KDE library > > and maybe even a framework someday. > > Currently it is used by Quassel and Tomahawk but hopefully more will > > start to use it soon. > > > > So please review Snorenotify. > > > > If you find the idea of Snorenotify useful or you fancy notifications, > > like I do, feel free to contribute ;) or start to use Snorenotify. > > > > Thanks :) > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hannah > > Is it intentional that org.freedesktop.Notifications.service is not > installed by default? >
