feat: add whyoolw/sharednd — auto DND while screen sharing (niri)

Headless service that follows niri msg -j event-stream and enables
notification Do Not Disturb via the host IPC (notification-dnd-set)
while at least one screencast is active, restoring it afterwards.

Side effects: spawns a persistent shell retry loop around
`niri msg -j event-stream`, runs `niri msg -j casts` /
`niri msg version` and `noctalia msg notification-dnd-*` on demand.
No network access, no filesystem writes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ShareDND
Automatic Do Not Disturb while the screen is being shared.
When the first screencast starts (any app sharing via the portal — Discord,
OBS, browsers, `niri msg action set-dynamic-cast-*`, ...), notification DND is
enabled. When the last screencast stops, notifications come back.
## How it works
- A headless service follows `niri msg -j event-stream` and reacts to
`CastsChanged` / `CastStartedOrChanged` / `CastStopped` events — no polling.
- On every cast event it re-queries `niri msg -j casts` as the authoritative
state, so missed or reordered events cannot desync it. The stream is wrapped
in a shell retry loop and resends full state on reconnect.
- DND is toggled through the host IPC (`noctalia msg notification-dnd-set`),
so the usual OSD feedback appears.
## Ownership rules
- If DND was **already on** before sharing started, the plugin leaves it on
after sharing ends (it never took ownership). The
"Always disable DND after sharing" setting overrides this.
- If DND was enabled manually *during* sharing while the plugin owned it, it
will still be turned off when sharing ends (the plugin cannot tell the
difference).
## Settings
- **Only active streams** — count only casts with `is_active: true`. Off by
default: any open screencast session (even paused or showing nothing) keeps
DND on.
- **Always disable DND after sharing** — force DND off when sharing ends,
regardless of its state before sharing started.
## Requirements & limitations
- Requires **niri** (detection is niri IPC; on other compositors the plugin
is inert and shows a warning at startup).
- There is no plugin-disable hook in the host: if you disable the plugin
mid-share while it owns DND, DND stays on — toggle it manually.