D14949: Add option for whether to show the volume change OSD

[anonym]

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  In D14949#335721 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D14949#335721>, @graesslin wrote:
  
  > It's about the user group: do we want to deaign so that the small Reddit community is happy or do we want to design for the rest?
  
  
  For what it's worth: I opened this ticket and sent the patch, and I am not part of the Reddit community. Before I implemented my own fix I searched around for a solution I encountered a plethora of complaints and patches, with Reddit just being a drop in an ocean:
  
  - https://sergiorafael.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/disable-kdeplasma-volume-osdpopup/
  - https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/449855/how-to-disable-the-volume-popup-in-kde-plasma-5-13
  - https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=205707
  - http://hipersayanx.blogspot.com/2015/12/disable-volume-and-brightness-osd-in-kde.html (filed a patch for brightness OSD that was rejected: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343962)
  - https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1198058
  - https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/5zyd1a/i_hate_the_new_volume_osd/ (has code to make the OSD into a thin horizontal strip)
  - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/kde-plasma-problems-volume-control-brightness-adjustment-data-traffic-ltor-layout-solved/21575
  - https://forum.antergos.com/topic/6370/annoying-volume-icon-pop-up
  - https://github.com/Zren/plasma-applets/commit/337b7d11103da11576584bdd605726c38bbbc2f9
  - https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=88&t=85544
  - https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=99424
  - https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=153873
  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363983
  - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=398020
  
  > Do we want to make the product more complicated (yes that's the result of a config option) to please some people on Reddit while at the same time we already have a mechanism to achieve the same?
  
  What is this "mechanism" you are talking about? I'm intrigued!

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