MacOS Notification: Wrong icon + opens script editor

[tadeaspetak]

Checklist

• I have searched the issue tracker for open issues that relate to the same problem, before opening a new one.
• This issue only relates to a single bug. I will open new issues for any other problems.

Describe the bug

On MacOS, when you send an app notification, the icon doesn't correspond to the icon of the app. Instead, the script editor icon is shown. Clicking the notification doesn't open the app but instead opens the script editor.

This seems to be a regression of this old bug #935 that was solved back in 2020. I tried adding a simple notification e.g. to the GoTune app. Everything works as it should on my machine there. To me, this implies the problem is not related to my version of Go or MacOS but rather to the Fyne version. Or, naturally, it could mean that I'm doing something wrong. But, I tried both the FyneApp.toml approach and setting the icon on the app manually.

How to reproduce

1. Clone https://github.com/tadeaspetak/fyne-notifications
2. make to package the app
3. make run to run the app
4. click the button

Screenshots

Example code

package main

import (
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2"
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
	"fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
)

func main() {
	a := app.NewWithID("com.tadeaspetak.fyne-notifications")

	w := a.NewWindow("Notification Example")

	button := widget.NewButton("click me", func() {
		a.SendNotification(fyne.NewNotification("Title", "Button clicked."))
	})
	w.SetContent(button)

	w.Resize(fyne.NewSize(200, 200))
	w.ShowAndRun()
}

Fyne version

2.5.1

Go compiler version

1.22.5 darwin/amd64

Operating system and version

Sonoma 14.6.1

Additional Information

No response

[andydotxyz]

Apple has changed how notifications work and a Go binary executed in that way is not permitted to send notifications. You have to be a bundled app executed through their launcher.

Instead of "make" or "go run" you should call "fyne install" and then run the app from macOS launcher - you'll see that notifications appear as you would expect.

If you are aware of any workarounds that is great but reading their docs we cannot find any actual API call that is permitted outside of the bundle context.

[tadeaspetak]

@andydotxyz Thanks a lot of your quick reply! Sadly, this is still not working for me. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get the correct notification icon & click behaviour.

Could you try cloning the repo and verifying this is the case for you, too?

1. run fyne install in the repo
2. open the app from Applications or via the launcher
3. click the button
4. see the notification with the script editor icon (instead of the app icon) and incorrect click behaviour

Also, all works fine up to [email protected] and starts being broken at [email protected]. This seems quite natural since that release included PR #1833 which included commit fc94fa.

[tadeaspetak]

@andydotxyz Ah, I see the comment below now. In other words, it's not enough to package / install, it also has to be signed, i.e. one needs to have the Apple dev account, certificates, etc., correct?

fyne/app/app_darwin.m

Line 46 in 7d81356

// this happens if our app was not signed, so do it the old way

[andydotxyz]

Ahh you're right I forgot that part.
If the app is ready to distribute it will use the system notifications. It used to be that packaging was OK, but not any more :(