I also think it is a good idea to add some functions in Emacs for Win32 platform, and let other's used those functions from elisp. Thanks~
On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 1:02 AM Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-06-22 14:16 GMT+02:00 Xi Shen <davidshe...@gmail.com>: > >> Well~that's good news. But I think dbus requires X11 to work. But in >> Cygwin environment, people usually do not configure a full X11 environment. >> > > No, dbus doesn't require X11 to work. Neither does emacs require Cygwin > to work. > Actually, Emacs compiles as a native Windows application (using MinGW32 or > MinGW64) and it is also the case of dbus. > > >> Besides, for org-notify, could dbus help it playing a notification sound >> on Windows? Or popup a notification message? >> >> > I guess it will work the same way it does elsewhere. > > > >> So what I am thinking is to get some Windows native behavior for >> org-notify on Windows/Cygwin environment. >> >> > I too think that a native, session only module that will provide the same > interface as dbus could be interesting > for Windows users. However, that shouldn't prevent those who want to use > dbus to use it. > > AFAIU, using dbus, you could have a distant running emacs (ssh) session > and get notifications on your local desktop, > provided the right setup. > > Well, browsing the source code, I see that Eli Zaretskii has already > implemented native win32 tray notifications. > They are a small subset of the dbus notifications. > However, he made them exclusive with dbus. I don't see the reason yet. > > Fabrice > -- Thanks, David S.
