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Turn on popups for device notifications

Nate Grahamrequested to merge
work/ngraham/popup-for-device-notifications into master

Part of plasma/plasma-desktop#149

These notifications are a useful way to communicate to the user that their device isn't dead and was actually detected. Currently we have only sounds turned on, and no popups. This problematic for accessibility because deaf people won't hear the sound.

For this reason, EU Directive 2019/882 requires that all sound-based notifications be accompanied by something visual as well.

Let's turn on popups to comply with that. We did some work to make the popups not annoying, including:

  • Not appearing in the history
  • Removing the connection notification when disconnected (and vice versa)
  • Removing the notification when it's for a USB disk and the Disks & Devices widget appears automatically.

@teams/accessibility @broulik

If approved and merged, this will end up in Frameworks 6.18, which is the dependency version for Plasma 6.5, which is the releases that has the "make these popups not be annoying" changes in it, so that should work out.

Edited by Nate Graham

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