Add activity indicators to taskbar and system tray icons

[amalg]

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The Win32/64 version of Desktop client does not have any indications on the tray icon for new message counts. Other messaging channels like Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Skype, etc. will all show some sort of indicator that something has happened in the application that the user should look at (receipt of a new message).

Describe the solution you'd like

• I would like to have the application icon displayed in the taskbar have an indicator as to the number of unread new messages in the client application.
• I would like the system tray icon to display a small contrast colored dot in the upper left or upper right area of the icon to indicate new activity in the client application the user should attend to.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternatively, instead of a new message counter, the taskbar icon of the application could simply display a colored dot that contrasts with the application icon color to indicate new activity the user should be made aware of.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Example of Nextcloud Talk with new unread messages compared to other communication clients:

[git529]

this is a must have

[vagner-dias]

+1

[djaniol]

Really appreciate this feature. In general talk is not too bad for usage however without notification like blinking talk icon the whole idea with application for win doesn't have much sense in general in my opinion.
Some activity indication is very appreciated.

[Saueee]

This issue should be priority. Talk has already problems with notification.
I guess people download the dektop version to be notified correctly if something going on.
No point on having the dektop app if it has the same problem.

[nickvergessen]

Talk has already problems with notification.

No we don't 🤷

[Saueee]

@nickvergessen Well sorry let me rephrase.
Talk has very few configuration options for notifications.

With problems i mean:

1. 30 sec polling seems too slow. Should be configurable without building source.
2. Browser Tab showing an Asterisk instead of blinking like everything else which is much harder to notice.
3. Incoming calls should have an constant sound/notification until dismissed or accepted (if channel not muted).
   Currently if you missed the short sound you cant notice at all even if active in nextcloud. Could be configurable too.
4. New group notification default is "mention only" which is too less in most cases. Default setting should be configurable.

[nickvergessen]

30 sec polling seems too slow. Should be configurable without building source.

https://github.com/nextcloud/notify_push will help and make it instant

Browser Tab showing an Asterisk instead of blinking like everything else which is much harder to notice.

We can not make it blink, the browsers offer very little options, changing the title will make pinned tabs show a "marker"

And that is all we can do atm as far as I know

Incoming calls should have an constant sound/notification until dismissed or accepted (if channel not muted).
Currently if you missed the short sound you cant notice at all even if active in nextcloud.

This is still open and we are working towards it

New group notification default is "mention only" which is too less in most cases. Default setting should be configurable.

It's the first admin option, but yeah missing from user level options atm.

[arielchai]

Agreed, some indicator for unread notifications (e.g. red/green dot), would be godsend.
Thanks for the hard work guys 👍

[drlight17]

Agreed, some indicator for unread notifications (e.g. red/green dot), would be godsend. Thanks for the hard work guys 👍

While waiting this desktop app to contain some core messanger functionality to use in production in the company I did small Nextcloud Talk wrapper app. It's early alpha but for now it is more suitable for my needs. Unread messages are shown like this:

There are also some behaviour and gui improvements.