Could --version be added to bin/mate-notification-properties?

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Could we support this option:

mate-notification-properties  --version

Which would yield the String:

1.28.1

right now?

Rationale: I am querying the installed versions of all mate-desktop components.

Usually I use --version; or I check the .pc file. mate-notification-properties comes
without .pc file, and the binary that is installed does not honour --version; instead
it just starts a GUI, which is nice, but I'd like to have a --version flag if that is
possible. Unfortunately I don't know C well enough to propose code addition for
honouring --version or any other flag. (A .pc file could be installed instead, or in
addition to it; I have no preference here. My objective is solely to obtain the
version String, no matter which way to go about it.)

Note: interestingly the file:

xdg/autostart/mate-notification-daemon.desktop:X-MATE-Bugzilla-Version=1.28.1

contains the version String, so I can parse it. But perhaps having the binary report
--version may be cleaner than this approach. At any rate, thank you for reading this
issue request.