No Gitter notificiations showing up, error in the logs

Created by: agrare

Running Debian sid and gitter desktop 3.1.0 I'm getting errors in the logs when a notification should be shown:

gitter.desktop[6470]: [6470:0116/154112:INFO:CONSOLE(143)] ""Notification response"", source: /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/utils/notifier.js (143)
gitter.desktop[6470]: [6470:0116/154112:INFO:CONSOLE(158)] ""Problem initializing notification" "TypeError: Cannot read property 'trim' of undefined
    at checkActivationNotifierResponse (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/utils/notifier.js:41:22)
    at /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/utils/notifier.js:144:27
    at NotifySend.notify (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/node-notifier/notifiers/notifysend.js:48:5)
    at /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/utils/notifier.js:132:16
    at tryCatcher (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:497:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:555:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:600:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:683:18)
    at Promise._fulfill (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:624:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:568:21)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:600:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:683:18)
    at Promise._fulfill (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:624:18)
    at Promise._resolveCallback (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:424:57)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:510:17)"", source: /tmp/.org.chromium.Chromium.7EWxZ6/utils/notifier.js (158)

@mydigitalself any status on this? It is still an issue.

@agrare we aren't actively working on the Linux desktop version at the moment as we have some resource constraints and it's the least-most used platform at Gitter, but the repository is open source, so an MR would be wonderful... :)

mentioned in merge request !202

@mydigitalself underlying problem was not having notify-send installed which on debian is in the libnotify-bin package. This error was hidden due to this exception, see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitter/desktop/merge_requests/202