Add kdeconnect block

[ammgws]

Testers welcome!

[GladOSkar]

Works beautifully! Awesome idea :)

Although personally, i don't really care about my phone's charge state (it always lasts the day) but only the notification count. Could we have the icon and state/color criteria changeable?

The mobile-android fontawesome icon or similar is probably better suited anyway

[ammgws]

Yeah I'll change it so icons are specified via the format string instead, I think that should work. How should the state/colour work with notifications? Also does yours ever show anything but 0?

[GladOSkar]

I'd probably set it to info whenever there are any notifications, and default otherwise.

Actually, now that you mention it, the notification counter doesn't seem to update in place. When i reload the bar though, it does show:

[ammgws]

Oh I think I forgot to add the handler for notifications. Oops! I'll do it sometime this week

[ammgws]

Updated.

• notifications now update
• changed block icon to a phone
• made battery and notification icons selectable as qualifiers for the format string
• block state can be set to act on notifications instead of battery by setting all the thresholds to 0

I think that it should be OK to merge now as the basic functionality appears to be working fine. Probably need more people to test it anyway.

[GladOSkar]

Works great! Thanks!

block state can be set to act on notifications instead of battery by setting all the thresholds to 0

This feels a little hacky but if it works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I'd recommend adding it to the block documentation as well though.

[ammgws]

Yeah it's what I went up with now since the other thing was to separate the block into widgets which would then mean multiple format strings are needed. IIRC other blocks with configurable state thresholds act similarly: if you set them all to 0 then block state won't be set at all.

[GladOSkar]

Ok yeah then that makes sense. I originally thought of another config option but that's probably way more bloat than necessary

[GladOSkar]

OK i found another Problem: The bar crashes when my device isn't connected.

[ammgws]

Ah I was waiting for that to come up. Is that when you start the bar before connecting your phone, or does it happen if you disconnect your phone after successfully starting the bar? Somehow I haven't managed to trigger it but I guess my VPN has kept it's connection this whole time.

Edit: Actually going by that error message I think that one can only occur during startup. Maybe we can display a "disconnected" icon and then periodically check for it to come online.

[GladOSkar]

Well my usecase is that i take this computer lots of places, and only sometimes (at home) are both devices on the same subnet. At university, work, or a friend's place, either

a) The network does not allow communication between devices or
b) My phone isn't on wifi and therefore not on the same network

I only saw it while starting the computer+bar as of yet, but when i'm home i can test what happens when i disconnect the phone from wifi

[ammgws]

I turned my VPN and WiFi off before heading home and found that the bar was still alive, albeit the kdeconnect block was static with the last seen values. As soon as I connected my phone to the network the block updated again.

Things to try:

1. Show phone as disconnected when it goes away (I think there are some signals on the bus I can watch for this)
2. Figure out what do to with the startup case