Autostart (#94)

* Proper autostart capabilities via libportal

* Make the linter happy

* Add option to request autostart manually

* Linter

* fix build

* hmpf

* hmpf 2.0

* back to hmpf 1.0

* Avoid being annoying

* fix

* Tested libportal

* Use boolean directly

* Extract repeated statement out of if/else block

* Add the permission

* Segregate the sections of autostart command

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Co-authored-by: Darshak Parikh <[email protected]>

Author: teamcons

com.github.elfenware.badger.yml

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ finish-args:
   - '--socket=wayland'
   # Allow Badger to send reminders
   - '--socket=session-bus'
+  # Allow Badger to autostart and keep timers in the background
+  - '--talk-name=org.freedesktop.portal.Background'
 
 cleanup:
   -  '/include'

data/com.github.elfenware.badger.gschema.xml

@@ -77,5 +77,10 @@
     path="/com/github/elfenware/badger/state/"
     id="com.github.elfenware.badger.state"
     gettext-domain="com.github.elfenware.badger">
+    <key name="first-run" type="b">
+      <default>true</default>
+      <summary>Whether this is the first time that Badger has opened</summary>
+      <description>Used to determine whether or not to perform initial install steps</description>
+    </key>
   </schema>
 </schemalist>

meson.build

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ executable(
         dependency ('glib-2.0'),
         dependency('granite-7'),
         dependency('gobject-2.0'),
-        dependency('gtk4')
+        dependency('gtk4'),
+        dependency('libportal')
     ],
     install : true
 )

src/Application.vala

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
     public bool headless = false;
+    public bool ask_autostart = false;
 
     private Badger.MainWindow window;
 
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
     protected override void activate () {
         stdout.printf ("\n✔️ Activated");
 
+        var settings = new GLib.Settings ("com.github.elfenware.badger.state");
         var gtk_settings = Gtk.Settings.get_default ();
         var granite_settings = Granite.Settings.get_default ();
         stdout.printf ("\n⚙️ State settings loaded");
@@ -54,6 +56,20 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
             );
         });
 
+        // On first run, request autostart
+        if (settings.get_boolean ("first-run") || ask_autostart) {
+
+            // Show first run message only if really first run
+            if (settings.get_boolean ("first-run")) {
+                stdout.printf ("\n🎉️ First run");
+                settings.set_boolean ("first-run", false);
+            } else {
+                ask_autostart = false;
+            }
+            request_autostart ();
+
+        }
+
         if (window == null) {
             var reminders = set_up_reminders ();
             var main = new MainGrid (reminders);
@@ -77,16 +93,20 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
             window.show ();
             window.present ();
         }
+        headless = false;
     }
 
     public override int command_line (ApplicationCommandLine command_line) {
         stdout.printf ("\n💲️ Command line mode started");
 
-        bool headless_mode = false;
-        OptionEntry[] options = new OptionEntry[1];
+        OptionEntry[] options = new OptionEntry[2];
         options[0] = {
             "headless", 0, 0, OptionArg.NONE,
-            ref headless_mode, "Run without window", null
+            ref headless, "Run without window", null
+        };
+        options[1] = {
+            "request-autostart", 0, 0, OptionArg.NONE,
+            ref ask_autostart, "Request autostart permission", null
         };
 
         // We have to make an extra copy of the array, since .parse assumes
@@ -108,23 +128,33 @@ public class Badger.Application : Gtk.Application {
             return 0;
         }
 
-        headless = headless_mode;
-
         hold ();
         activate ();
         return 0;
     }
 
     public static int main (string[] args) {
         var app = new Badger.Application ();
-
-        if (args.length > 1 && args[1] == "--headless") {
-            app.headless = true;
-        }
-
         return app.run (args);
     }
 
+    private static void request_autostart () {
+        Xdp.Portal portal = new Xdp.Portal ();
+        GenericArray<weak string> cmd = new GenericArray<weak string> ();
+        cmd.add ("com.github.elfenware.badger");
+        cmd.add ("--headless");
+
+        // TODO: Implicit .begin is deprecated but i have no idea how to fix that
+        portal.request_background (
+            null,
+            "Autostart Badger in headless mode to send reminders",
+            cmd,
+            Xdp.BackgroundFlags.AUTOSTART,
+            null);
+
+        stdout.printf ("\n🚀 Requested autostart for Badger");
+    }
+
     private Reminder[] set_up_reminders () {
         Reminder[] reminders = new Reminder[8];
         reminders[0] = new Reminder (