click on notification bubble

[gpatel-fr]

@brenno.almeida said:

From apps perspective, there's no way to tweak this behavior.

not sure what you are meaning by 'this behavior' and 'tweaking'.

What I understand is there would be no way to display a time out notification and detect if the user has pressed the notification before it closes by itself.

If this is what you mean, this example shows how it can be done..

Granted, don't know if this can work from an unconfined app. This caveat was not part of the discussion

[mihael]

So just speaking from the user point of view, not developer:

Right now, there is a notification bubble that the user can interact with by swiping it away and this notification bubble also has a time out - it disappears by itself.

Then, there is the notification in the notification list - this notification has a "load" - like info about what app to open and some other info that is passed to the app. The user can interact with this notification by tapping on it - then the UI opens that specific app and passes that specific info to the app.

My question is: can't the "load" be included in the notification bubble as well? And then the UI adds the possibility for the user to interact with the bubble by tapping on it.

[CiberSheep]

@mihael this is the intended behavior.
No click on notification bubbles, please.
I have disabled notification bubbles long time ago, as they turn on the screen and that's annoying.
Notifications should show in the notifications indicator. All of them in one place.

[mihael]

@CiberSheep That could actually work as a workaround solution: to disable bubbles and enable notifications sound: this way I am notified that there is a new message / email but I don't have to wait for the bubble to disappear before I scroll down the notifications list and click on the notification. However, this introduces an extra step: to turn on the screen by pressing the power button.

What I was looking for is a simple, direct, straight forward way of being notified and then opening that specific app.

I also have to explain a detail about my context: I don't have a passcode or fingerprint reader enabled, so I don't have these extra steps of unlocking the phone.

[brenno.almeida]

@gpatel-fr I'm talking about the title, that an app has no API to set an action when clicking on the notification bubble.

I think your example shows that, as it is not using the official lomiri api for this. So it doesn't work with an http post to the push server for example.

[gpatel-fr]

@mihael said:

can't the "load" be included in the notification bubble as well? And then the UI adds the possibility for the user to interact with the bubble by tapping on it.

I have looked at the spec for push notifications. Not the http notifications via the ubports push server, the notifications via d-bus, the so-called "low-level API", the 'postal message':

here is an exemple use from Dekko source code:

QJsonObject NotificationWatcher::buildSummaryMessage(const QString &msg) {


    QString appDir = QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath();
    appDir.replace(QRegExp("dekko2.dekkoproject/.*"), "dekko2.dekkoproject/current/");
    QString icon = QString("file://").append(appDir).append("dekko.png");

    QJsonObject c;
    c["summary"] = msg;
    c["popup"] = true;
    c["persist"] = true;
    c["icon"] = icon;
    QJsonArray actions = QJsonArray();
    QString actionUri = QStringLiteral("appid://dekko2.dekkoproject/dekko/current-user-version");
    actions.append(actionUri);
    c["actions"] = actions;

    QJsonObject notification;
    notification["card"] = c;
    notification["sound"] = true;
    notification["vibrate"] = vibrate();
    QJsonObject message;
    message["notification"] = notification;
    return message;
}   

what is important is that Dekko does everything 'right' to allow for the system to activate it when clicking (pressing) the bubble notification. There is nothing that Dekko is purposely NOT doing to disable this capability that is said to be possible in plain english in the doco:

If you add a URL, then bubble notifications are clickable and launch that URL.

so it can be considered like a bug, yes. I'm changing my point of view here. Per the doc, it was designed to work like you want it to work, but obviously it don't (I checked again with Dekko).

I guess that it has never worked like that though.

For apps that are using the high level Api, I don't know if it's even possible to pass an activation URI so it's possible that this capability was not really wanted as it seemed just not doable.

[mihael]

@gpatel-fr Great find!

I don't know where to search but maybe we need to inspect the code in the OS for handling the bubble.

Some time ago I had to write a service worker for browsers and I had to specifically program what it is done when a notification is clicked.

[kristatos]

@gpatel-fr said:

I guess that it has never worked like that though.

I'm not 100% sure, but AFAIR it was working like this in earlier UT-Versions (16.04, maybe 20.04)

[gpatel-fr]

@kristatos

interesting, unfortunately it's very unlikely that someone still running 16.04 is reading this, maybe someone running 20.04 could chime in ?

[projectmoon]

@gpatel-fr said:

@kristatos

interesting, unfortunately it's very unlikely that someone still running 16.04 is reading this, maybe someone running 20.04 could chime in ?

I have a Nexus 5 in a drawer... that might be running 16.04... Assuming it actually turns on, which is not a given.

[gpatel-fr]

@projectmoon said:

I have a Nexus 5 in a drawer... that might be running 16.04

interesting. Don't expect it to do any better in 26.04 (if it's supported one day). Notification bubbles don't work as per the doc in 26.04 either, it's not worth the bother to upgrade