[Bug 744465] New: New API for install-plugins

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744465

            Bug ID: 744465
           Summary: New API for install-plugins
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins-base
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: klember at gnome.org
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

I've been looking into making missing gstreamer plugin installation work with
gnome-software.

Currently, the missing plugin installation API is rather limited and only
supports passing the XID of the app's window and no other details. The way this
was used was that gnome-packagekit would use the app's window XID to to attach
its own window as a transient child to the app's window.

In gnome-software, we would like to avoid doing that for a number of reasons,
most of all because it can't work under Wayland.

I'd like to add some replacement missing plugin API to make it work without
replying on the window XID. Attaching two patches for that.

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