[Electron] [Feature] Direct Answer in Notifications

[ghost]

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Answer messages in Notifications

It would be great if Signal allows to answer Notifications like in Telegram.

Steps to reproduce

• receive the message
• get notification
• can't answer in notification

Actual result: Click on Message opens Signal
Expected result: Signal allows direct answer in Notification

Screenshots

Actual result:

Expected result:

"Hovering" the notification

Click on reply:

Send Message

Platform info

Operating System: macOS High Sierra 10.13

Signal version: Signal Electron v1.0.27

Pull Request

I don't know how this works on other operating systems, so how will this work on Linux and Windows?

Question to @scottnonnenberg and @liliakai: Is this feature on the roadmap and should someone build a pull request or not?

[liliakai]

I believe this is only possible on mac, using either https://github.com/CharlieHess/node-mac-notifier from the renderer or https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/notification/ from the main process.

[FeuRenard]

This is in principle also possible with GNOME on Linux: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/gs-respond-messages.html.en
Here it was asked to add the feature to Electron: electron/electron#7285
It seems to be difficult to find documentation on this: https://github.com/SolarLiner/libnotify-terminal/issues/17

EDIT: In the following PR there seems to be an example for inline reply API usage on Mac: electron/electron#9269