dunstify vs notify-send differences (mainly speed)

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Lightweight and customizable notification daemon

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dunstify vs notify-send differences (mainly speed) #1118

Closed fritzrehde closed 2 years ago

fritzrehde commented 2 years ago

Issue description

I know dunstify includes some more features that notify-send does not support. But when using features both support, are there advantages to using dunstify over notify-send? More specifically, does one execute common features faster/more efficiently?

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```ini # Dunstrc here ```

bebehei commented 2 years ago

Hey Fritz, both tools just send data to the DBus API. I don't see any relevant speed or efficiency differences. If there would be any of them, these would be negligible.

However the actual notification manager (dunst, mako, or the default gnome notification manager or other) does have an impact in speed, since these processes do need to decode, store, process, render and the data and maybe schedule some further action.