Signal-desktop: Feature Request: Notification For Voice Calls

[metal450]

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I understand that the desktop client doesn't yet support voice or video calls. However, it would be nice if at the very least it could provide some sort of notification that a call occurred/was missed. As it stands, if you primarily/solely use the Signal desktop client, there is no way to know that someone was trying to contact you.

[quite]

The client apparently already handles the CallMessage protobuffers message, and outputs to some log. So it's a matter of designing how this should be visualized in the UI -- which is possibly a bigger feat than the implementation of the same.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/blob/development/libtextsecure/message_receiver.js#L918

[quite]

Will a submitted (and reviewed) patch for this be applied? i.e. is it of any use for the community if somebody works on this. I guess some guidance regarding the design would be useful as well.

Maintainers? @scottnonnenberg-signal @kenpowers-signal

[scottnonnenberg-signal]

@quite One of our standard difficulties with external work is that we have designers who will need to sign off on any new visuals. If you start with designs we can run by them, there's a chance we could merge your changes.

[sirius-c]

@scottnonnenberg-signal With still no audio/video support on the desktop, this feature is really important - so often have I missed a Signal call now while being on the computer. Plus, the Android version has issues at least for me of not notifying all incoming calls with ringing, so such a desktop feature can also help partially with that problem.

It is a little strange that such an important addition is stuck just on 'visuals' for several months??

[dns2utf8]

Are there any news on this?

[quite]

signal desktop 1.35.1 just show me a notification about an incoming call. Maybe it's even possible to answer? But I gues this could be closed now...