Tdesktop: Implement 'secret chat' to Telegram on Windows platform

[dmxt]

Expected behaviour

Ability to have private chat on both party, for an example: person A is on Windows 8 and person B is on Android and they both can chat privately without prying eyes from "big guys".

Actual behaviour

Mobile phones have private chat feature as well native macOS (from what I heard), and possibly UWP. Windows is left out.

Configuration

Operating system:
Windowos 8

Version of Telegram Desktop:
Telegram 1.11.18

[Maxxie]

It's a duplicate alright, but is there any kind of comment you could give us about this issue?

[stek29]

They're given already.

[Maxxie]

The only answer i could find was something like 'it's not planned for the near future' and it's from almost 3 years ago... Not much of an answer in the first place, not really relevant anymore

[roma-guru]

Maybe it can be implemented in some kind of fork if spec is open? (I dont know, just asking)

[YamashitaRen]

I'd like to add that Linux too is left out.
What's the grand idea for Telegram ? One cross-platform official client missing an essential feature and each OS having its own Telegram client build from scratch in order to support this feature ?

[dmxt]

How hard is it to implement this now basic feature on Telegram on the most popular desktop operating system in the world?

I'm not meaning to leave off Linux but what was your reasoning to ignore the basic support for the most used desktop OS, but instead implement it on less popular operating system macOS and ignore Linux despite it's in the same category?

It's like having a website not support Chrome, but support Internet Explorer and Opera.

The only information we got, as @Maxxie mentioned, the single comment from 3 years ago "_not planned for near future_." I think enough time has elapsed by for us to have a new official comment.

[zeroone2numeral2]

but instead implement it on less popular operating system macOS and ignore Linux despite it's in the same category?

@dmxt MacOS client != Telegram Desktop. Telegram Desktop for MacOS doesn't support secret chats either. The MacOS client (which does) uses some platform-specific stuffs to store secret chat messages that won't work on a multi-platform client (Telegram Desktop)

I think enough time has elapsed by for us to have a new official comment

There have been some statements around this issue tracker. If I recall correctly, as of now, Telegram Desktop doesn't store anything persistently - messages and chats are loaded from zero when you open the app. Since secret chats are not on the cloud, they would require the ability permanently store stuffs in a secure way, which is something TDesktop doesn't have yet