Toggldesktop: Use native notifications on Linux

Created on 27 Mar 2017 · 6Comments · Source: toggl-open-source/toggldesktop

Would be very convenient to have native notifications on Linux, f.i. on Ubuntu Gnome with libnotify, like shown here.

Those notifications could show:

Start and end of a toggl respectively (with the name of the task, project and duration), when using shortcuts
End of a pomodoro (with an option to continue or to have a break)
End of a brake, when using the pomodoro timer
Idle detection message
Reminder to use toggl, if enabled in the options

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sojusnik

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Thank you for the suggestion. We'll consider this. We will test how different distros work with libnotify and if all is good I see no reason why not give it a go.

IndrekV on 30 Mar 2017

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Thank you for the suggestion. We'll consider this. We will test how different distros work with libnotify and if all is good I see no reason why not give it a go.

IndrekV on 30 Mar 2017

👍5

Probably would be good to solve https://github.com/toggl/toggldesktop/issues/1889 and https://github.com/toggl/toggldesktop/issues/1799 before switching to using native notifications on Linux for idle detection.

jayvdb on 4 Oct 2017

+1 would be great!

ivnilv on 7 Feb 2018

Any updates on this? I'm getting the toggl reminder in an alert box on the desktop, which I have to actively address when happens. I'd disable it, but it actually reminds me a lot to track my time...