Description:

Related issue (if applicable): #984

This is based on the PR #992 and the amazing work started by @qarkai way back in 2023 👀

I have finally had time to go through the changes and still remain backwards compatible with what was there. More importantly the test coverage has been sigifigantly refactored. The idea was to support a path people can leverage that does not require the legacy and unsupported dbus-python references (yet still offer them) while moving towards the more ideal approach.

How it works:

• glib:// and gio:// leverage the new way
• For backwards compatibility, dbus://, qt:// and kde:// still remain working using the old functionality

Checklist

• The code change is tested and works locally.
• There is no commented out code in this PR.
• No lint errors (use tox -e lint)
• 100% test coverage (use tox -e minimal)

Testing

Anyone can help test this source code as follows:

# Create a virtual environment to work in as follows:
python3 -m venv apprise

# Change into our new directory
cd apprise

# Activate our virtual environment
source bin/activate

# Install the branch
pip install git+https://github.com/caronc/apprise.git@984-dbus-python-refactoring

# Test out the changes with the following command:
apprise -t "Test Title" -b "Test Message" \
  glib://