Improved Custom Notifications (e.g. text size)

[Gitoffthelawn]

In this issue report, @hluk mentioned:

Apps have minimal control over native notifications - generally it is possible to set some priority or urgency (it may not even be possible to set timeout) and AFAIK, text size cannot be set, unless some rich text format is supported, but that depends on what the specific notification system.

AFAIK, that's correct.

Have CopyQ's custom notifications been enhanced to support adjustable text size? What about support for a rich text format?

If not, is such an enhancement being considered? It sure would be useful! :)

[hluk]

I'm not planing to implement any improvements to non-native/built-in notifications.

Font size can be increased in Appearance configuration for non-native notifications.

Rich text is supported for non-native notifications too. It is a subset of HTML. Example command: copyq popup test '<b>bold</b>'

[Gitoffthelawn]

Thanks Lukas.

From the Win11 terminal, this works:

copyq.exe popup test "<font color='#f00'>hello</font>"

but from a CopyQ command script, this doesn't work:

notification(
    '.title', '<font color="#f00">This should be red</font>',
    '.id', 'test',
    '.icon', '',
    '.time', '3000'
);

Am I making an error?

[hluk]

To set notification message using notification() function, use '.message' before the message body argument.

popup('test', 'message') is same as notification('.title', 'test', '.message', 'message').

Your code would be:

notification(
    '.title', 'test',
    '.message', '<font color="#f00">This should be red</font>',
    '.id', 'test',
    '.icon', '',
    '.time', '3000'
);

NOTE: The argument after '.id' is used to identify the message so it is possible to change it or close it later.

[Gitoffthelawn]

That works most excellently. Thank you Lukas.

BTW, I intentionally omitted the .title and it worked fine. Any problem with omitting the title?

[hluk]

Any problem with omitting the title?

I don't think so, unless it would cause problems with some native notifications systems.

[Gitoffthelawn]

Great. Thank you for all your help.