From e43ddf0eaa78d1ffcddb4f09f2c69e7daadf584b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@hey.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:41:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Say when there's no notification history to replay

Replaying an empty history did nothing at all on screen, which reads as
a dead keybinding rather than an empty log.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 shell/plugins/notifications/Service.qml | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/shell/plugins/notifications/Service.qml b/shell/plugins/notifications/Service.qml
index 8d050350..c12d5eb7 100644
--- a/shell/plugins/notifications/Service.qml
+++ b/shell/plugins/notifications/Service.qml
@@ -331,7 +331,23 @@ Item {
       service.historyReplayLimit,
       NotificationUrgency.Normal)
 
-    if (rows.length === 0) return "none"
+    // Replaying nothing at all looks like a dead keybinding, so say so.
+    if (rows.length === 0) {
+      popupModel.insert(0, {
+        id: -1,
+        originalId: -1,
+        app: "omarchy-action",
+        appIcon: "",
+        summary: "No recent notifications",
+        body: "",
+        image: "",
+        glyph: "󰂚",
+        urgency: NotificationUrgency.Low,
+        expireTimeout: 0,
+        timestamp: Date.now()
+      })
+      return "none"
+    }
 
     clearPopups()
     for (var i = 0; i < rows.length; i++) {