Feature request: Backward-compatible IPC

[illiliti]

I can achieve this by using tiramisu, but would be awesome to have this feature natively and without external dependencies(if possible 👍)

[dudik]

I know what IPC is, but I'm not really sure what you request. Could you give a specific example? Like, what you want to achieve and aren't able with the latest version.

[illiliti]

i meant provide a way to send notification through libnotify (notify-send) without introducing dbus dependency (i.e backward-compatible org.freedesktop.Notifications IPC)

[dudik]

So you want notifications without a daemon and D-Bus that "implement" the org.freedesktop.Notifications specification? I don't think that's possible. Could you link me to something that states otherwise? If I understand it correctly, then org.freedesktop.Notifications is directly "connected" to the session bus, so D-Bus is a must have dependency. And it doesn't make sense to reinvent the wheel, not that I would be able to with my limited time and knowledge.

[illiliti]

Could you link me to something that states otherwise?

tiramisu, but to implement such thing we need some kind of daemon because afaik unix sockets(dbus ipc underhood) can't be reused without losing data. anyway, i think it's possible through editing and spoofing libnotify functions, but this is another story...