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.
* Add zkgroup library
* tsconfig.json: Prettier wants to mess it up. :0(
* Initial take on versioned profile fetches
* Fix up the logging in getProfiles() - warn instead of error
* Introduce new VERSIONED_PROFILE_FETCH flag
* Update zkgroup dependency to v0.5.0
* Fix lint-deps - new zkgroup library brought in new debug dep
* ts/zkgroup: Introduce some commonly-used helper functions
* Update to latest serverPublicParams
* Don't derive profileKeyVersion unless flag is set
* Starting to work through lint errors
* libsignal-protocol: Update changes for primary repo compatibility
* Step 1: task_with_timeout rename
* Step 2: Apply the changes to TaskWithTimeout.ts
* Step 1: All to-be-converted libtextsecure/*.js files moved
* Step 2: No Typescript errors!
* Get libtextsecure tests passing again
* TSLint errors down to 1
* Compilation succeeds, no lint errors or test failures
* WebSocketResources - update import for case-sensitive filesystems
* Fixes for lint-deps
* Remove unnecessary @ts-ignore
* Fix inability to message your own contact after link
* Add log message for the end of migration 20
* lint fix
