PR 144: [BUG]: Fix bHidden updates and general context, allow some interaction with notification and force one app-instance

[n3m3s7s]

Fix bHidden updates and general context

• Bug

sometimes the "bHidden" variable - which is a global variable tracking the main window visibility status - is not correctly updated, especially when reacting on some events such as "minimize window", "minimize to tray" and/or when changing the visibility on user interacton from different locations;

now the variable should be properly updated and reactive, and the Windows visibility should change instantly;

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Allow some interaction with notification

• Feature

Now when a notification is showed after a successfull polling request, that notification has been modified to be able to:

• since a NTFY message can have a "click" attribute (which should be an absolute URL), clicking on the notification will open the default browser (and not in electron); this only when the "click" variable exist in the payload and is not null or an empty string;

• clicking on the notification will try to show (or wake up) the main window (as expected);

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Force only one app instance at any time

• Feature

Since most users are not tech-guys they usually open the application several times, and this causes a lot of issues;
Yes, this could be mitigate with the option "Always quit app" but is not very convenient, especially if You want every user to receive notifications even when they are not using the PC;

so basically now - since is possibile via Electron - the workflow will take care to allow only one instance of Ntfy-Desktop;

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Category	Value
Title	[BUG]: Fix bHidden updates and general context, allow some interaction with notification and force one app-instance
Created	12.03.2025 11:32 AM UTC
ID	#144
Author	n3m3s7s
Repo	ntfy-desktop
Branch	main ⇁ main
Added Files	0
Modified Files	2
Renamed Files	0
Copied Files	0
Deleted Files	0

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