Windows: rewrite notification logic in C? about fyne HOT 6 OPEN

Fixing this would also likely fix #3079, I think.

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True, but again, I've seen at this point a few implementations of balloon notifications that placed a systray, sent a notification, removed the systray. I don't know if with the way fyne and in general gui apps handle the event loop if this is a viable option, but at least in theory it should work. Again, I have nothing against toast notifs specifically but they seem messy from what I can parse of the windows docs

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I'm adding this here because if going with the balloon notification API doesn't work, someone made a C version of the microsoft C++ example for the toast API

https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-classic-samples/tree/main/Samples/DesktopToasts/CPP
https://gist.github.com/valinet/3283c79ba35fc8f103c747c8adbb6b23

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I think it needs to be the toast type doesn't it? The bubbles relate to system tray apps (in my experience).
Great suggestion to move off the script based code though.

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Yea it looks like bubbles require a system tray app, but that might make implementing easier since the tray app logic exists already so it's just about adding notifications to the existing logic. I don't know if that's a possibility since the systray logic isn't directly in fyne but instead it's in the systray package?

Looks like toasts still need the XML document even if you don't go with pwsh script, but I have only a loose grasp on windows APIs so I might be wrong, that said if it's just an xml template it's less of an issue than running a pwsh script from within go, but I'm not sure what to do with the XML once it exists

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.ui.notifications.toastnotificationmanager?view=winrt-22621#sending-toast-notifications-from-desktop-apps
looks like toasts are an issue for non-uwp apps, might be solvable, I have no idea what this means haha

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Yea it looks like bubbles require a system tray app, but that might make implementing easier since the tray app logic exists already so it's just about adding notifications to the existing logic. I don't know if that's a possibility since the systray logic isn't directly in fyne but instead it's in the systray package?

We cannot require system tray just for notification support.

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