Feature request: Dynamic call members - add a person to a 1:1 call

[maymage]

• Yep, I have searched open and closed issues for duplicates
• Please let me know, if and howto narrow down this issue to make it actionable

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Bug Description

I am not able to add other persons to an ongoing 1:1 call

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the Signal Desktop Client
2. Call Person A
3. Try to add a Person B to the call

Actual Result

I was not able to find a way to

• right click or
• an UI element

to pass to a 2+ persons Group Call from a 1:1 call.

Expected Result

• On the Desktop Client I expected to find functioning click actions or clear UI buttons to
  pass from a 1-1 Call to a 2+ persons Group Call by adding other participants on the fly, e.g.
  from a plus symbol - leading to a contact selection overlay .

• After a Group Call, which has been created in this way, a Group Creation dialog should be offered

  • Would you like to create a Group with List of Participants from before and if so
  • Give the Group a name

Software Info

System: Debian Sid + GNOME 3.38.4

Signal Version:

flatpak info org.signal.Signal 

Signal Desktop - Private messenger

         Kennung: org.signal.Signal
             Ref: app/org.signal.Signal/x86_64/stable
     Architektur: x86_64
           Zweig: stable
         Version: 5.0.0
         License: GPL-3.0
        Ursprung: flathub
        Sammlung: org.flathub.Stable
    Installation: system
     Installiert: 329,8 MB
Laufzeitumgebung: org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/20.08
             Sdk: org.freedesktop.Sdk/x86_64/20.08

          Commit: 2a4e00378860f9304a3ac96fbcd70fad3aac96449ab8084d37ec87e2ee578…
          Parent: 0b945f0979220b15390a11bb4cc26beed6b6237da4de7d377c196f3da1a56…
         Subject: Update signal-desktop_1.40.1_amd64.deb to 5.0.0 (#184) (30ab972c)
            Date: 2021-04-13 06:31:56 +0000

Generalizations

Similarly for m<n it should be possible to pass

• from a m-persons group call to a n-persons group call
  • either incrementally by passing from m to m+1, m+1 to m+2 and so on
  • or directly from a multi-selectable contact list overlay

[hiqua]

You mean that the group features implement on the mobile clients are not implement in the Desktop one, right? Because once you have a group (created from the mobile client), you can call the group from Desktop, or can't you? If you can't that's a bug.

Otherwise it's known that Signal-Desktop is not feature complete compared with the other clients.

[maymage]

You mean that the group features implement on the mobile clients are not implement in the Desktop one, right?

Correct.

Because once you have a group (created from the mobile client), you can call the group from Desktop, or can't you? If you can't that's a bug.

This works. No problem with that.

Otherwise it's known that Signal-Desktop is not feature complete compared with the other clients.

I can close this feature request, if it's just creating noise..

[maymage]

Updated the issue to reflect the latest Signal update introducing Group creation from the desktop version..

[stale]

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