UnifiedPush: Push Notifications for Linux - LAS 2023

Explore the world of push notifications for Linux in this 40-minute conference talk from the Linux App Summit 2023. Delve into the importance of push notifications as a platform feature and their essential role in real-time communication and public alert applications. Learn how UnifiedPush aims to bring this functionality to FOSS platforms, addressing the need for efficient battery usage and resource management. Discover the efforts to build open-source push notification infrastructure, including client-side and server-side components based on the UnifiedPush specification. Examine KDE's work on client-side UnifiedPush integration and discuss approaches for ensuring user transparency and control across different Linux environments. Finally, investigate the potential challenges of providing necessary server-side infrastructure to enable applications to rely on push notifications in the Linux ecosystem.