Possiblity to use Windows notifications again?

[Deoquaerus]

Hi all,

with one of the last updates, the possibility to get Windows notifications in case of backup errors has been abandoned. I read somewhere (can’t remember where) that this is by design. But why has this feature been removed entirely, instead of having an option to turn it on and of?

As I use duplicati on a single-user workstation, having only one Windows user, it was quite useful to get a reminder to plug the external USB backup drive in, whenever I just forgot. Without the windows notifications, there is no way to have such reminders.

I want the windows notifications back, please.

Take care,
Deoquaerus.

[Duplicatus]

Hi,

I second this proposition. With the release of the 2.1.X branch, seems that Windows notifications and tray icons have completely gone, and in some cases, as @Deoquaerus says they are useful.

For example, the other day i saw a warning on the web UI, which i had no idea it was happening, simply because the tray icon didn´t show up with the typical warning icon it used to have. Of course, it didn´t show up on windows notifications center either.

An option to turn this behaviour on and off, would be nice.

Thnaks.

[ts678]

@Deoquaerus

But why has this feature been removed entirely

Need developer input, but I think the old code is entirely replaced with Avalonia.

Battle plan for migrating to .Net8 can be searched for it. I won’t try a summary…

@Duplicatus

tray icons have completely gone

Can’t agree, although Warning seems broken. Error still turns red (at least for me).

For the dev, this is what TrayIcon gets when it should show a warning, but doesn’t:

{"ActiveTask":null,"ProgramState":"Running","SchedulerQueueIds":[],"ProposedSchedule":[],"HasWarning":true,"HasError":false,"SuggestedStatusIcon":"ReadyWarning","EstimatedPauseEnd":"0001-01-01T00:00:00","LastEventID":5,"LastDataUpdateID":2,"LastNotificationUpdateID":0,"UpdatedVersion":null,"UpdaterState":"Waiting","UpdateDownloadLink":null,"UpdateDownloadProgress":0}

Leaving the popup on the GUI screen and restarting TrayIcon still doesn’t yellow it.

[kenkendk]

@Deoquaerus

But why has this feature been removed entirely, instead of having an option to turn it on and of?

As @ts678 correctly guessed, this was part of the move to Avalonia.
The previous builds were using the very old WinForms method to show the “balloon tips”.

When we migrated to Avalonia it meant a much cleaner cross-platform codebase, but we lost a few features, and the notifications was one of those. I have tried a few times to get notifications into the Notification Center, but as Duplicati is not an UWP application it does not seem to work. A similar problem exists for MacOS.

@Deoquaerus

I want the windows notifications back, please.

I agree, they should be there. But right now I am waiting for AvaloniaUI to add the feature to send notifications, and once this works, I will add the notifications back.

@Duplicatus

An option to turn this behaviour on and off, would be nice.

I agree.

@ts678

"SuggestedStatusIcon":"ReadyWarning","

Yes, that should turn it yellow.

[ts678]

@kenkendk

Yes, that should turn it yellow.

I’m surprised it took so long for this to be noticed. I thought maybe the 2.1.0.5 icon changes did something, but 2.1.0.4 also does it, and so does 2.1.0.110 Canary, all tested on Windows with a Source file with access permissions removed. On Linux Mint, 2.1.0.5 had a pre-existing yellow pop-up from an invalid run-script path, and fresh duplicati start didn’t come up yellow. I’m not sure how old this problem is.