Incoming SMS notification does not display Phone/Contact

[derekatkins]

Hi, When I receive an SMS message, I get the notification popup, but it lists the phone ID and message but not the contact phone/name. So I don't know who it is unless/until I hit "reply". I'm in Xfce in case that matters.

I just noticed that I actually get TWO popup notifications. One which DOES contain the SMS message+sender, but it disappears after a few seconds. And then a second one, which does not disappear, which just says [Phone ID] [Reply] without giving any indication of who I'm replying to or what they said.

[b4j4]

I don't know how notifications work on Xface, but probably is a notification issue on Xface, and indicator-kdeconnect don't manage notifications, so this kind of bug need to be reported to kdeconect developers

[derekatkins]

Okay, if indicator isn't managing the Linux UI notifications, what DOES indicator do?

[andyholmes]

@derekatkins mostly the kde connect daemon does everything involving receiving. The indicator is mostly for initiating actions like sending files, or SMS. I think the reason you get two is because KDE Connect tries first to use the Telepathy framework (messaging) and then the Notify framework (notifications), somehow both are being triggered, definitely a KDE Connect bug though.

@Bajoja I think you can turn this off with kdeconnectd -platform offscreen, I might do this if I put kdeconnect support in my gnome shell extension so I can deal with them myself.

[b4j4]

@andyholmes thanks this info will be usefull for the user, maybe i add it to the indicator-kdeconnect-settings.

@derekatkins this indicator do what kdeconnect don't do on your DE, wich is ...