Refactor the notifications watcher interface
After adding it in 5.19 release, we realized various shortcomings of the NotificationsWatcher interface. After discussing this with @broulik and @nicolasfella at last Plasma Sprint this is work in progress attempt to refactor it.
Main changes
- Explicit Register/UnRegisterWatcher methods from the notifications manager interface is removed.
- Registrations of watcher is handled by the "plugin" files installed on filesystem
- Plugin file is simple .desktop file, example below
These changes opens up possibility of ability to enable/disable the notification watcher based on user's selection/choice. I have not thought about user interface for this just yet though, maybe needs talking with VDG about this.
Examples
Lock-screen
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Lock Screen
Type=Service
Icon=lock
Id=org.kde.kscreenlocker.greeter
X-KDE-Notifier-DBus-Service=org.kde.kscreenlocker.greeterKDE Connect
[Desktop Entry]
Name=KDE Connect
Type=Service
Icon=kdeconnect
Id=org.kde.kdeconnectd
X-KDE-Notifier-DBus-Service=org.kde.kdeconnectd