Make Notifications more responsive

[silasmue]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Calls in NextCloud Talk Desktop App need up to 55s until the pop-up or any other notification gets displayed, same for messages. Messages are only instant if you joined a chatroom.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be nice if the app is more responsive in terms of notifications. I think that is not a problem with the backend, because on iOS the notifications for messages or calls are instant (under 5s).

Describe alternatives you've considered At the moment, as far as I understand the code the app polls for new notifications every ~30s which is just to slow if you really want to answer a call and not call back 1min after.

Additional context At the moment I am running: NextCloud Talk Desktop: 1.0.1 Nextcloud 30.0.4 NextCloud Talk 20.1.3

[ShGKme]

At the moment, as far as I understand the code the app polls for new notifications every ~30s which is just to slow if you really want to answer a call and not call back 1min after.

Only as a fallback when there is no notify_push.

[ShGKme]

@silasmue Could you provide the diagnosis report? It can be found in the About window (open from the menu or via F1 and click on "Copy report" button).

[BIRO-IS]

Hello, I can confirm this behaviour. On the Android app and notifications on Ubuntu are very fast, notifications in the Talk desktop app delayed for at least 5 seconds.

Thanks in advance!

`### Diagnosis report

Nextcloud Talk Desktop
Version	v1.2.3
Built-in Talk version	v21.1.0
Release channel	stable
Operating system	Linux 6.8.0-63-generic (#66-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jun 13 20:25:30 UTC 2025)
Executable Path	/app/lib/com.nextcloud.talk/Nextcloud Talk
Using Wayland	❌ no
Connected to	-
Nextcloud server version	31.0.6
Nextcloud Talk version	21.1.0
notifications app enabled	✅ yes
notify_push app enabled	✅ yes

Application config

{
  "launchAtStartup": false,
  "theme": "dark",
  "systemTitleBar": true,
  "monochromeTrayIcon": true,
  "zoomFactor": 1,
  "playSoundChat": "respect-dnd",
  "playSoundCall": "respect-dnd",
  "enableCallbox": "respect-dnd",
  "secondarySpeaker": false,
  "secondarySpeakerDevice": null,
  "trustedFingerprints": []
}

`