Hmm. A max-width option would also imply that we'd need min-width, and have width override both of them if it is specified, which is adding quite a bit of complexity to the configuration. I don't think we want width to behave like height in this case, where it is implicitly a maximum. Having both the width and the height flexible also creates complications. How do you decide which direction to expand first?

Once #46 is fixed, you'll be able to specify width by matching on the application sending the notification or similar, would this be sufficient?

Ping since #46 is closed.

Another idea might be to allow notifications to shrink, instead of having a fixed width. This way you could then set the width to eg. 500 or more, and still have smaller notifications displayed nicely without much whitespace.

@vilhalmer OK, so what about it not being a px dimension but a character count length? Then you would expand till, you reach the defined int parameter and then you would force a breakline.

max-line-chars ?

@Gigg1ty I don't get it, you just described the behavior that would be achieved by working max-width :D

max-line-chars

Not a fan of this. Doesn't play well with non-monospace fonts, duplicates functionality.

@freed00m Um, i guess you are right 😅 But my thinking was that a min-width would not really be required this way, as notifications could be allowed to be as short as a single character.

@emersion that's true.
Ignoring all the arabic ligature weirdness where two characters are often shorter than single one. Is there a way to get font's character px length? I think dunst just uses some pango font width as reference and hopes every other font fits more or less.

Can we introduce a shrink option in mako like @Gigg1ty suggested? Let the width and height implementation remain as it is.

Ideal would be something like dunst has, width = (20,300) where it is either (min,max) pair like this or single digit if you want fixed width, but me personally would be satisfied with just shrinking

Yes, I too would be happy to have shrinking for the width parameter and the normal setting of width. So 300 and then anything lower gets shrunk like it would with height.

Will this be implemented someday?

I'm also looking forward to the day this gets implemented.