element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Trying to enable desktop notifications when browser lack permission disables audible notifications
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Open Element in a browser session where the app won't have permission to start desktop notifications, eg. you've already said no to the prompt or in a chrome incognito window.
2. Toggle the desktop notification switch on

### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Just an error of some kind
#### What happened instead?
The notification switch for audible notifications is also turned off
### Operating system
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### Browser information
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### URL for webapp
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### Application version
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### Homeserver
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### Will you send logs?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce the issue in a browser session that cannot obtain desktop-notification permission, then trace the desktop and audible notification settings from the Element web client. Done means a failed desktop-notification enable attempt leaves audible notifications unchanged and reports an error; the issue names no files or tests to start from.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100