Qt - notifications without tray icon, possible?

Question

I'm writing a C++ Qt desktop appliaction.

Is it possible to show Skype=like notifcations in Qt, without creating a tray icon?

All notification reference I found require a tray icon, which I do not want to create.

The notifications should show when the application is opened and when it is minimized.

Answer 1

UPDATE: it seems this isn't working with recent versions of Qt. A workaround I found to make this work was to, after creating the QSystemTrayIcon:

• Call show()
• Display the desired message with showMessage
• Call hide()

This works OK for me.

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Create a QSystemTrayIcon but never call show() on it. Then you can use QSystemTrayIcon::showMessage to display your popup.

Answer 2

Just create popup class and show it somwhere on the desktop with always on top flag. Notification may also be a widget

Answer 3

a little late but you might be interested in this library https://github.com/Snorenotify/Snorenotify/

Snorenotify is a multi platform Qt notification framework. Using a plugin system it is possible to create notifications with many different notification systems on Windows, Unix and Mac.