Desktop app on Mac plays notification sound even when disabled

[vasimi]

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Summary Desktop app plays notification sounds on Mac even if notification sounds are disabled system-wide or for the Mattermost app.

Environment

• Operating System: macOS
• Mattermost Desktop App version: 5.0.4
• Mattermost Server version: 6.6.1

Steps to reproduce receive a notification

Expected behavior if do not disturb is turned on or notification sounds are turned off for Mattermost, no sound is played

Observed behavior sound plays even if notification sounds are turned off in the system

[devinbinnie]

Thanks for the report, this unfortunately requires a native Node module to work correctly, which we do not support in our build process currently.

We will be supporting this in the near future however!

[RichieB2B]

This is a really annoying bug. How near in the future can this be fixed? Which Node module does this feature depend on?

[devinbinnie]

This might now be fixed with the addition of the macos-notification-state module. However, it will only work outside of the MAS build due to Apple's App Sandbox restrictions. You can try it for yourself in the nightly buillds available here: https://community.mattermost.com/core/channels/desktop-builds

[RichieB2B]

Wow, that was fast! I can confirm that mattermost-desktop-5.2.0-nightly.20220912-mac-m1 fixes this issue.

[RichieB2B]

For the MAS issue, looks like this can be fixed: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macos-notification-state/pull/27