Configurable notifications

[rakoo]

Hi there, thanks for your project it's probably the best TUI I've ever used for an IM !

In gurk notifications are working out of the box, but I don't want notifications, I want to read messages when I want only. Is there a way to deactivate them ?

Edit: ideally, gurk would write a magic file with the number of unread messages, and I would probe that file with my notification bar and only display something that tells me "there is some new stuff to read"

[boxdot]

I added a configuration flag notifications = false # default value true to gurk's config in #192.

About magic file: W could add a gurkctl utility, which would provide a command to read out the number of unread message from a running instance of gurk. Maybe, we can think of other commands like marking all unread messages as read. Not sure though, whether such a tool would be useful.

[rakoo]

Thank you very much !

Regarding the utility, it might be a departure from the goal of gurk which is to provide a TUI. There is signal-cli that provides CLI capabilities, it's probably best to not make one big thing that does everything.

I leave the issue open if there is a need for discussion, but feel free to close if you feel like it :)