Emmer

A Wayland notification daemon, inspired by Sonner.

demo.mp4

Stack

• Rust
• Wayland (smithay-client-toolkit)
• Cairo / Pango for rendering
• zbus for the freedesktop Notifications D-Bus API
• Tokio for async

Pending

Current

• Dismiss all button (bar stay until empty, hoverable clear, height/layout quirks)
• Dismiss goes too far down sometimes
• Configuration file fixes

Later

• Sounds and sound hints
• Scrolling spread
• Text alignment
• Font parsing
• Animation smoothing
• Better theming
• Default configuration file
• Markup text
• Cap frame rate
• HiDPI
• Center the image
• Multiple stacks
• Rule-based theming

Tests

• Clicking a notification should dismiss it and activate the app