Get current configuration via IPC

[emersion]

Not sure this is a good idea, but posting it as a separate issue:

Getting the status would also be very useful to create a statusbar block representing whether notifications are invisible or not. And probably useful for other config options too.

Originally posted by @RX14 in https://github.com/emersion/mako/issues/157#issuecomment-497885595

[vilhalmer]

I can't help but feel that actually parsing the config to figure out what happens to any given notification would be a massive pain.

Perhaps instead we could provide an endpoint like makoctl test which takes some notification fields like app-name, etc and returns a json representation of the computed style for that fake notification? Then the calling script wouldn't have to do logic to figure out how the criteria stack.

[emersion]

This seems a little too complicated to me. I'd say for this use-case we should leave it to the script changing the notification option. Something like this would do:

makoctl set invisible $value
echo $value >$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/mako-invisible

And then read this file from the statusbar.

[RX14]

This only has to apply to global configuration options, or even just to invisible. Which I would think would be fairly simple to implement.

[ian-s-mcb]

Just wanted to say that I could really use this feature for my waybar setup. Thank you for creating and maintaining mako! It's just what I needed.

[emersion]

Can you explain why you need this for your waybar setup?

Now that we have modes, maybe adding a way to query the current mode would be useful. Might want to be careful about the possible future extension of allowing multiple modes to be active at the same time.

[ian-s-mcb]

maybe adding a way to query the current mode would be useful

Yup, that's it. I want to make a custom waybar module[1] that toggles the mako do-not-disturb mode, but to do that I need the current mode.

[1] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Custom

[stvsu]

maybe adding a way to query the current mode would be useful

Yup, that's it. I want to make a custom waybar module[1] that toggles the mako do-not-disturb mode, but to do that I need the current mode.

[1] https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Custom

+1 for a way to query the current mode. I just set up a DND toggle for Waybar, but it sets the mode to default every time waybar starts up, which is a workaround way of knowing makos current state. Script is below if helpful @ian-s-mcb

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import signal
import time
import subprocess

subprocess.run(["makoctl", "set-mode", "default"])
status = "on"

def toggle(signum, stack):
  global status
  if status == "on":
    subprocess.run(["makoctl", "set-mode", "dnd"])
    subprocess.run(["echo", "{\"text\":\"Off\",\"class\":\"off\",\"percentage\":0}"])
    status = "off"
  else:
    subprocess.run(["makoctl", "set-mode", "default"])
    subprocess.run(["echo", "{\"text\":\"On\",\"class\":\"on\",\"percentage\":100}"])
    status = "on"

signal.signal(signal.SIGUSR1, toggle)

while True:
  if status == "on":
    subprocess.run(["echo", "{\"text\":\"On\",\"class\":\"on\",\"percentage\":100}"])
  else:
    subprocess.run(["echo", "{\"text\":\"Off\",\"class\":\"off\",\"percentage\":0}"])
  time.sleep(5)

[ian-s-mcb]

Thanks for the script, @stvsu. I prefer to wait for an integrated solution.

[emersion]

Let's track the issue about querying the current mode in https://github.com/emersion/mako/issues/367, and keep this issue for querying the current config file options (still not sure the latter is a good idea).