In many GNU/Linux setups, drawing attention when a notification arrives
causes the Signal window to steal focus immediately and interrupt the
user from what they were doing before the notification arrived. GNOME
Shell is the most prominent example of this behavior, but there are
likely other cases as well. Suddenly stealing focus on external events
like this can even pose a security problem in some cases, e.g. if the
user is in the middle of a typing a sudo password on one monitor while a
notification arrives and focuses Signal on another monitor. See #4452
for more information.
Disabling attention drawing entirely for Linux is also problematic
because some users rely on it as the sole indication of a new message,
as seen in #3582 and #3611.
Commit f790694559 improved the situation
by adding a hidden "--disable-flash-frame" command-line argument, but
this argument is undocumented and manually adding command-line arguments
to the application's .desktop file is not user-friendly.
This commit adds a settings option for whether to draw attention when a
new notification arrives to make it easy for all Linux users to obtain
the appropriate behavior without relying on an undocumented
command-line argument.
Fixes#4452.
The Android app saves files with the filename format
'signal-YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss.extension' but the desktop version
saves them with format 'signal-attachment-YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss.extension'.
The attachment changes the suggested filename in Attachment.ts
to have the prefix 'signal' rather than 'signal-attachment'.
Tests were changed as necessary.
Resolves#4321
* Improve efficiency of conversation sorting in getLeftPaneLists
- Sort conversations and archivedConversations separately, without
items that had falsey activeAt
- Don't convert conversation titles to lowercase before comparing:
collator.compare() is case-insensitive anyway.
* Enable caching for format() in PhoneNumber
The "Hide menu bar" option is only applicable to Windows and some Linux distros,
where the menu bar is attached to the Signal window. Therefore, this commit
ensures that it doesn't show up on MacOS. It includes a setting,
isHideMenuBarSupported(), to control the option's appearance. This
commit also includes the tests to make sure isHideMenuBarSupported()
works correctly.
Fixes#2705
* Conversation List Item: timestamp bold only when convo has unread
* Preserve the positioning of overlays on re-entry into convo
* ConversationListItem: Handle missing and broken thumbnails
* Shorten timestamp in left pane for better Android consistency
* Update convo last updated if last was expire timer change
But not if it was from a sync instead of from you or from a contact.
* Make links in quotes the same color as the text
* MediaGridItem: Update placeholder icon colors for dark theme
* Ensure turning off timer shows 'Timer set to off' in left pane
* ConversationListItem: Show unread count in blue circle
* Add one pixel margin to blue indicator for text alignment
* Ensure replies to voice message can bet sent successfully
Also:
- New schema version 8 with video/image thumbnails, screenshots, sizes
- Upgrade messages not at current schema version when loading messages
to show in conversation
- New MessageDetail react component
- New ConversationHeader react component
