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The list of features is mentioned here in the readme. This page will describe how certain features work and how new ones are added.
Notification Relay
The notification relay works by listening for method calls on the org.freedesktop.Notifications DBus interface. Any such method call represents a notification being sent. ITD reads the data from the method call and creates a notification suitable for ANS (Alert Notification Service) which is used by InfniTime to display notifications. This means DBus must be installed and running for ITD to relay notifications.
Transliteration
Transliteration for ITD is implemented in a custom translit package. It consists of a Transliterator interface which looks like this:
type Transliterator interface {
Transliterate(string) string
Init()
}
Anything that satisfies that interface can be added to the Transliterators map and then used in ITD's config in the notifs.translit.use array.
Music Control
Music control is implemented using playerctl which uses the MPRIS DBus interface. This means it will work with any music player which supports MPRIS. playerctl must be installed for ITD to do music control.
Control Socket
ITD exposes a UNIX socket at /tmp/itd/socket by default. This socket can be used to control the daemon. It is how itctl and itgui work. This can be used in any language which supports UNIX sockets which is nearly all of them. Even bash can be used with netcat.
New Features
New features are added whenever I find out they exist from InfiniTime's repo or developers. This means ITD's master branch may contain features not yet released in InfiniTime.