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hoehermann / purple-gowhatsapp

Pidgin/libpurple plug-in for WhatsApp Web.
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Use libpurple to organize Desktop/Toast notifications #171

Open beadon opened 1 year ago

beadon commented 1 year ago

Any thoughts on new support for following -- (some good and some bad ideas!) :

  1. Reddit - direct messages
  2. Instagram - direct messages
  3. Snapchat
  4. Tinder
  5. Facebook Threads .. ?

And on the topic of "direct messages" I see that Windows , Mac , and to some extent GNOME are walking the path of "notifications" which are slowly creeping into the space of Pidgin. That is to say -- the tray notifications systems getting built into operating systems today are trying to handle the volume of notifications from many different applications -- emails, websites, chat systems, etc. The notifications management is failing spectacularly because it's overwhelmed and is being abused to also deliver ad messaging (see: windows, apple, google/android).

Is there an opportunity here to inject Pidgin into the notification flow and handle notifications instead of the OS ? This is then more into the game of filtering messages / notifications intelligently. Combining this WITH chat hands more control to the user. And so -- are these OS-notification systems just another libpurple plugin ?

Thoughts ?

hoehermann commented 1 year ago

Hi beadon

I assume you are writing about Desktop Notifications. On Windows, they are called Toast Notifications. I have no idea what the MacOS terminology is.

While there are APIs to read notifications, I do not know of any way to "hijack" or "re-route" notifications on Windows. More research would need to be done. libpurple is quite flexible. I expect you could feed the notifications into Pidgin, possibly even assign them to the users, protocols and conversations. However, it is way out of scope of this project and I do not want to start a project in this direction.

Kind Regards Hermann

beadon commented 1 year ago

Yep, just capturing some ideas here. The sprawl of notifications is intense.