Ability to launch GUI Dialog from extension

[DanielAtCosmicDNA]

I developed a touchscreen stenography keyboard that uses the websocket server plugin to send encrypted keystrokes to any computer running Plover (the host).

As of now, the security of this application is missing a vital part that is the ability to either accept or reject incoming connections to the host computer. For this purpose I would like to keep the plugin as an extension instead of converting it to a tool where whenever there is an incoming connection request, a pop up is presented to the user with the connection request details in the host computer allowing the user to either accept or reject it.

The pop up code would be launched directly from this function.

I am looking for ideas on how to elegantly achieve this goal without compromising on quality of the application, features nor security.

[user202729]

one of my plugin https://github.com/user202729/plover-search-translation/ kind of do this by launching an independent process. For a simpler solution you may just run rofi or so, although that may not be particularly portable between different OS.

[DanielAtCosmicDNA]

That's amazing and surely a path forward. I will stitch that together during this weekend or the next and come up with a test branch.

[DanielAtCosmicDNA]

I have just implemented it following your suggestion on the following branch: https://github.com/CosmicDNA/plover-websocket-server/tree/connection-request. Many thanks for your contribution!

[DanielAtCosmicDNA]

Basically there is now a dialog that pops up whenever there is a new connection request: