[Feat] Companion Notification Service about companion HOT 5 OPEN

I am open to this, and I think this would be a portion of what would likely be done as part of having the module 'store' proposed in #1002.
So I think this is very tied to and perhaps dependent on that

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I feel like there might also be some overlap with #2319

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#2319 focuses on Change Logs, where as what I was suggesting could be used to deliver change logs it would not be limited to them and could be used for anything else, for example a simple notification that some online service the module is reliant on will be down for maintenance for x period of time, which may have nothing to do with change logs.

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I would focus on the "update available" aspect and see this as a part of the module store.
In the store I'm all open for some user communication, like module reviews and comments, developer notes, whatsoever. But nothing pushed to the application GUI. In my opinion as a user I want my software to be as silent as possible and I would definitely not want any notifications pushed at me. I can imagine a small icon at the connection like a "!" if it is outdated and maybe a " 📣 " if there has been some activitiy on the store for this module in the past week.

But the user would have to actively look for it himself.

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I was envisioning this as some sort of notification icon in some corner of the UI that would indicate that there's a notification (potentially a number of unread notification). When clicked it'd go to a page that has a list of notifications, and when read the notification icon would no longer be set to active.

It should require user interaction to go to the notifications page, there shouldn't be any popup modal in the middle of the screen or anything of that nature, but I also think hiding notifications through a store (which doesn't yet exist) and potentially multiple clicks for users to get to information about things such as service outages that would impact their use of a module or even Companion itself if it is an outage with Companion Cloud or some other Bitfocus service current or future, would be terrible user experience, and unacceptable design.

For example if you go to AWS and there's a service issue, the bell icon lights up users can click it to see notifications, if it's an issue, click it for more info etc... It doesn't take you away from the page you're on unless you want to, it doesn't make you have to go to a AWS product page and scroll through to get to updates or what may be the thing the notification is alerting you to.

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