Notifications do not popup if app installed from *.dmg on macOS #14976

1. 
   hebasto commented at 8:52 pm on December 16, 2018: member

   How to reproduce:

   1. Install Bitcoin Core from downloaded dmg file (e.g., v0.17.1rc1).

   2. Run with -regtest.

   3. Generate a new block. A new notification is expected to popup.

   Actually, this notification is present in Notification Center; but it did not popup.

   The same Bitcoin Core version being self-compiled (git checkout v0.17.1rc1) works as expected.

2. fanquake added the label macOS on Dec 16, 2018
3. 
   fanquake commented at 11:20 am on December 17, 2018: member

   Which version of macOS are you testing/have tested on?
4. 
   hebasto commented at 11:37 am on December 17, 2018: member

   @fanquake

   Which version of macOS are you testing/have tested on?

   10.13.6 and 10.11.6; both in VM.

5. 
   Sjors commented at 2:59 pm on December 17, 2018: member

   Haven’t tested this yet, but reminds me of #11840
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   hebasto commented at 0:38 am on December 19, 2018: member

   It seems related to CFBundleIdentifier.
7. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 7:50 pm on December 19, 2018: contributor

   This is not a bug, it’s a feature.

   When Bitcoin Core is the most foreground application, such notifications go silently to the Notification Center (top right global menu bar).

   If you put the Bitcoin Core GUI in the background and trigger a notification via RPC (generatetoaddress as example) you will get a banner (popup) notification.

   I guess it would be possible to overwrite the NSUserNotificationDelegate and make it always popup.

   https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsusernotification#//apple_ref/occ/instp/NSUserNotification/presented

8. 
   hebasto commented at 8:58 pm on December 19, 2018: member

   @jonasschnelli

   This is not a bug, it’s a feature.

   When Bitcoin Core is the most foreground application, such notifications go silently to the Notification Center (top right global menu bar).

   Tested. It works as described. But why do notifications popup for a self-compiled build running from the command line?

9. 
   jonasschnelli commented at 9:01 pm on December 19, 2018: contributor

   But why do notifications popup for a self-compiled build running from the command line?

   Not entirely sure but maybe because the command line is the process initiator and not the front most application?

10. hebasto closed this on Dec 19, 2018

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