Re: BUG: Gtk3::Application->id_is_valid stringifies the object it's called on

[Thierry Vignaud <thierry vignaud gmail com>]

On 20 September 2016 at 17:48, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> > Sorry, this one comes from sending a notification when app id is undef
> > which is somewhat expected according to
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/GNotification
>
> Yeah, it seems like the notification machinery in gtk+/gio requires an
> application ID.

Yeah it needs a matching desktop entry in /usr/share/applications.
And it looks it doesn't work unless there's a MIME entry too.
It won't work too if the the desktop entry is declared hidden.

That's a lot of (undocumented) restrictions...
Sigh...