Add notifications for completed terminal commands?

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Many other distributions ship this feature by default. Do you like it? Do you think it's a good idea to add to 17.10? :slight_smile:

Above all, is it feasible as of now to add to 17.10 already? Found those related discussions:

Seems to be pending upstream...

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Is this what you’re looking for: ntfy?

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Yep, brilliant!

What do you think of integrating it into default 17.10?

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ntfy looks great! Sadly not something suitable for including by default.

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@Wimpy, why not suitable to be included by default?

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Because it requires specific configuration, the variables are many.

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The only two things I had to do were:

  1. sudo pip install ntfy
  2. echo ‘eval “$(ntfy shell-integration)”’ >> ~/.bashrc

This cannot be added?

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I read the documentation. Stuff like editors need excluding and other tweaks are almost certainly likely. Making a change like this in everyone’s bashrc is a too invasive IMO.

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OK. How do other distros do this? I don’t think they integrate ntfy, do they? Did they develop their own solution?

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In this case, MATE Terminal would need a new feature.

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I see. In this case, we are back at https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-terminal/issues/168. Let’s hope they can add that feature.

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To be perfectly honest, it is the kind of feature-creep I always wish doesn’t happen. And it runs straight into my extremely low tolerance towards notification windows, which only makes it worse.

I think the first argument is more valid though, and I can’t see why this feature shouldn’t just exist in its current state; i.e. an external application one downloads if they wish the functionality. Instead of a non standard hack.

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Oooh, I like this idea! Fully agree, make it more easy for non-hackers to get this installed. Maybe the software boutique?

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ntfy is not available via apt, PPA or snap. So therefore not suitable to the Boutique.

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Given they provided one of those channels, could we add it to the Boutique?

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I only see pip install instructions.

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For now, yes, but we could ask them if they can provide one of those, so we can include it. :slight_smile:

Certainly also beneficial to them if a major distribution like Ubuntu MATE includes them in their Boutique!

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Anyone has tested both ntfy and undistract-me ? The latter is in universe.

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This looks interesting, thanks @ouroumov.

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Cool. Could undistract-me be directly integrated given it's in universe?