Deprecate fdo notifications in favor of xdp-portal notifications
This is a proposal to deprecate org.freedesktop.Notifications
in favor of org.freedesktop.portal.Notification
We feel strongly that having 2 separate evolving specifications is not something we want moving forward. Since the portal specification supports sandboxing (but can be used by non-sandboxed applications) and is being used as the default for most new apps we would like to move forward with it and mark the org.freedesktop.Notifications
as deprecated.
We are not planning to stop support for org.freedesktop.Notifications
but we would like to see improvements being made on org.freedesktop.portal.Notification
instead.
In its current version (v1) org.freedesktop.portal.Notification
is fairly limited, but @jsparber is actively working on v2 and submitted a PR that is now ready for review https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1298 .
EDIT: See this blog post https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024/04/23/notifications-46-and-beyond/#How-do-we-get-there
This proposal is made on behalf of both GNOME ( @sonnyp ) and KDE ( @apol ) .