id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc
416,fail gracefully when notifications service is unavailable,antihero,ulidtko,"We should handle somehow this frequent case (i.e. notify-daemon not running) and fail gracefully, with a clear error message. Or maybe even not fail, but continue running with disabled notifications.


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''Original bug report:''


Traceback:

{{{
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/usr/bin/guake"", line 1419, in <module>
    if not main():
  File ""/usr/bin/guake"", line 1362, in main
    instance = Guake()
  File ""/usr/bin/guake"", line 653, in __init__
    notification.show()
glib.GError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

}}}

Marked as critical as it entirely prevents the program from even loading on some configurations of Gnome.

Perhaps provide a fallback that simply disables notifications?",enhancement,closed,major,0.5.0,guake,0.4,duplicate,,