optionally specify an image

[hayd]

I'm not sure what a cross platform API could look like for this.

it could be an enum rather than arbitrary images...

[kunicmarko20]

https://github.com/hoodie/notify-rust/blob/940dbcb112a9de571dfaca20bb25eb10d9cf067d/src/lib.rs#L264-L278

notify-rust allows data, path or a system image (if I am correct)?

Not sure about other libs but if this would be possible cross platform it would be awesome

[flying-sheep]

• On Linux, you specify an optional icon and an optional image. Both can be specified as file://... URIs or as raw image data. You can also specify a standard name for the icon to use a native theme icon.

• On macOS, you specify an app bundle identifier, so you can use any app’s icon, I guess. One can get the bundle identifier from an app name using mac_notification_sys::get_bundle_identifier("Some App Name")

  mac_notification_sys doesn’t support adding images by path or data, but the new, non-deprecated API allows to add images as “attachments”.

• On Windows, you create XML to specify the notification. By default the app logo is used but you can do

  <toast launch="app-defined-string">
    <visual>
      <binding template="ToastGeneric">
        <text>Sample</text>
        <text>This is a simple toast notification example</text>
        <image placement="AppLogoOverride" src="some-url-or-path.png" />
      </binding>
    </visual>
    ...
  </toast>

  There’s a lot more possible on windows, including big banner-style images.

So in summary, the user should get the ability to specify both an icon and an image.

• The icon can have

  1. a linux theme name
  2. a mac bundle ID
  3. a path or image data (used on windows and on linux if you didn’t specify a linux theme name)

• The image can have a path or image data and is only for linux and windows (unless we switch from mac_notification_sys to something using the new macOS API)

[kunicmarko20]

So for macOS there is no way to provide image path? Only existing app icons?

[flying-sheep]

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