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 "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
UI now in separate renderer:
- the permissions popup
- settings dialog
- debug log dialog
- about window
Couple bug fixes:
- About Window: Fix 'escape' to close window
- Remove outdated dist/copy tasks from Gruntfile
Eslintified settings_view.js
- A new design for the import flow. It features:
- Icons at the top of every screen
- Gray background, blue buttons, thinner text
- Simpler copy
- A new design for the install flow. It features:
- Immediate entry into the QR code screen
- Animated dots to show that we're loading the QR code from the server
- Fewer screens: 1) QR 2) device name 3) sync-in-progress
- When not set up, the app opens directly into the install screen, which has been streamlined. The `--import` command-line argument will cause the app to open directly into the import flow.
- Support for two different flavors of builds - the normal build will open into the standard registration flow, and the import flavor will be exactly the same except during setup it will open directly into the import flow.
- A new design for the (dev-only) standalone registration view
- When these install sequences are active, the OS File menu has entries to allow you to switch the method of setup you'd like to use. These go away as soon as the first step is taken in any of these flows.
- The device name (chosen on initial setup) is now shown in the settings panel
- At the end of a light import, we hand off to the normal device link screen, starting at the QR code. On a full import, we remove the sensitive encryption information in the export to prevent conflicts on multiple imports.
- `Whisper.Backup.exportToDirectory()` takes an options object so you can tell it to do a light export.
- `Whisper.Backup.importFromDirectory()` takes an options object so you can force it to load only the light components found on disk. It also returns an object so you can tell whether a given import was a full import or light import.
- On start of import, we build a list of all the ids present in the messages, conversations, and groups stores in IndexedDB. This can take some time if a lot of data is in the database already, but it makes the subsequent deduplicated import very fast.
- Disappearing messages are now excluded when exporting
- Remove some TODOs in the tests
* Add setting to hide menu bar
Add a setting in the themes section to hide the menu bar.
The menu bar is not needed in everyday use and might not fit in with
signals dark theme. The hidden menu bar can still be shown by pressing
alt.
autoHideMenuBar is added to windowConfig and saved and restored on
startup to prevent flickering.
* Trigger events only when related setting changes
Set the event to trigger on instanciation of the view.
Notification settings no longer reapply the theme or menu bar settings.
* Save window state when closing the window
When not moving or resizing the window, no BrowserWindow config would be
created and saved.
Add a section under settings for performing a contact sync from your
mobile device. This just re-runs the same import operation that occurs
at install/link time.
// FREEBIE
