should desktop notifications be currently working?

[wizdude]

greetings,

i was unsure what the status of desktop notifications was, and thus whether it's just not implemented or whether there is a bug.

i searched through the issues and found commits done last month all related to notifications mentioned in issue #31

is this still work in progress?

p.s. i am so super excited about this project. a desktop client is totally what talk was missing and I can't wait to try it out with other members in my team once it's a bit further developed. thanks so much for everyone who is working on this project 😃

[ShGKme]

Hello wizdude,

Notifications should work. If you have a problem with notifications, please, provide more info:

• Versions you use
• Steps to reproduce

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Steps to reproduce

1. launch talk desktop
2. setup a direct conversation between myself and another user
3. minimise talk desktop
4. send a message from the other user to myself

Expected behaviour

I was expecting a notification of some kind

Actual behaviour

nothing. if i maximise talk desktop, there is an indicator next to the chat advising me of unread messages and the messages are there in the chat as expected.

Desktop client

Talk Desktop client version: v0.3.1

Operating system: Windows

Operating system version: Windows 11

Microphone available: no

Camera available: no

Server

Nextcloud version: (see status page: /status.php) 26.0.0.11

Talk app version: (see apps admin page: /index.php/settings/apps) 16.0.2

Custom Signaling server configured: yes/no and version (see additional admin settings: /index.php/index.php/settings/admin/talk#signaling_server) yes - running version dd37df185e90a42bccfcff72b3e0a7f68aadd5b6 but this issue also occurred prior to any setup of the high-performance backend

Custom TURN server configured: yes/no (see additional admin settings: /index.php/settings/admin/talk#turn_server) yes - but this issue also occurred prior to any setup of turn

Custom STUN server configured: yes/no (see additional admin settings: /index.php/settings/admin/talk#stun_server) no

Logs

no errors appear in the nextcloud log file.

Client log

Insert your browser log here, this could for example include:
a) The javascript console log
b) The network log
c) ...

[nickvergessen]

Duplicate of https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed/issues/1575

We are aware of it and will look into it soon

[wizdude]

Maybe from the Talk Desktop interface this could be handled differently.

for the current desktop chat application i use, if i don't have focus on the chat in question it sends a notification. it also has an option to switch this off.

this might avoid all the complexities vs talk running in a tab in a browser.

does this sound like a simple solution to the problem?

[nickvergessen]

That is also what we should do in the browser. The problem is that the backend needs to know whether or not you are active/passive and that should not bombard the server with on/off requests when you toggle between 2 windows all the time.

[wizdude]

Wouldn't it be possible to handle this differently in talk desktop? The server doesn't need to know the direct status of the user. Isn't it possible to push notifications directly from talk desktop at all times unless focus is on the specific chat where this is occurring?

Just trying to think outside the box and whether this could be handled at the client end rather than slamming the server.

[nickvergessen]

Isn't it possible to push notifications directly from talk desktop at all times unless focus is on the specific chat where this is occurring?

The server currently ignores participants that have an active session. Also the frontend code of the desktop client is the same as the browser, so that is all the same thing.

Please be patient, we will fix this properly in an upcoming release. And be assured we suffer from this as well multiple times per day, so we know about the annoyance it has currently.

[wizdude]

Please be patient, we will fix this properly in an upcoming release. And be assured we suffer from this as well multiple times per day, so we know about the annoyance it has currently.

many thanks. i'm so excited to see talk-desktop available as it really was the missing piece for many people and the only thing that's broken are the notifications. i'll be so happy when this is working 😃.

many thanks again.

[kenke7]

Any updates on this? I'm using v0.29.0 on Mac and notification still doesn't work. It affects the usability quite a lot and I think we should fix this ASAP?

[MohammedNoureldin]

I also use the latest version on Windows 10, the notifications do not work or work 1% of the times, which makes them unfortunately unreliable at all.

It would be great if this can be planned soon. Thanks!

[nickvergessen]

The thing I mentioned in https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop/issues/151#issuecomment-1514244167 is merged long time. Also I just received a notification on Windows 10, so that is all working with Nextcloud 29, Talk 19.0.3 and Desktop 0.31.0

[nickvergessen]

On some systems there are still issues, all others should work and do work quite reliable:

• https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop/issues/699
• https://github.com/nextcloud/talk-desktop/issues/641

[numpa]

Notifications still doesn't work on Win10 with latest Nextcloud and client app / web interface. Still completely unreliable. Sometimes notifications appear, but in 99% they don't. And no sound even when notifications appear. Mobile Talk for Android works perfectly.

[RTechSn]

@numpa Could you please check if #822 affects you?