Desktop notifications

[TheJaredWilcurt]

Describe the solution you'd like

An easy API to interact with whatever the current OS's desktop notifications system is.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Manually launching a new window disguised to look like a desktop notification (not worth the effort)

[nklayman]

Would we want to "polyfill" the web notification api so that notifications work the same as in a browser?

[nothingismagick]

We didn't have this on our roadmap, but I like @nklayman 's idea for polyfilling. Nice one.

[nothingismagick]

Seems like this would be a good library to use for that (behind a feature flag of course):
https://docs.rs/notify/5.0.0-pre.1/notify/

I think the right approach would be to make a tauri API that hooks into this feature that can then be called from JS or from RS

[nothingismagick]

here's the branch where this is happening:
https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri/tree/feature/notification

[nothingismagick]

And here's the PR
#505

[lucasfernog]

Closed by #505
The notifications API is going to be accessible with the Notification WEB API. Currently we'll support title, body and icon.

Example:

Notification.requestPermission()
  .then(response => {
    if (response === 'granted') {
      new Notification('title', { body: 'some text' })
    }
  })