Notifications Only When in Background --Bug or Feature?

[madranet]

MacOSX: 10,14,4
Wire: 3,10,3215

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When Wire is open on desktop the only time I get a notification on OSX is if the app is backgrounded. If it's in the foreground, I don't receive anything.

This may be intentional but, if so, it's a really stupid design decision. It means that, if I'm having a conversation with someone in Wire, I have to sit there watching the screen for their replies to come in, or else 'check back' every few minutes to see if any have come in while I've been doing other things, because I don't receive any audio notification of a reply.

Out of all the messaging apps I've used, Wire is the only one which doesn't give notifications while the app is open and in the foreground.

The vast majority of the conversations I'll be having with someone on Wire will be while I'm doing other things: I say something... get on with what I'm doing... a few minutes later they reply... I go back to Wire and compose my next pithy comment... [rinse and repeat].

Now I know some people will not want to hear continual notification 'bleeps' every time they receive a message --if they're actually sitting there having an immediate back and forth, 10 messages a minute, SMS type live chat with someone. But, in that case they could mute the sound if they found it annoying.

In the opposite scenario; people having a more long form conversation where replies might take several minutes to compose, or a question might be asked that requires consideration before a reply is written, the lack of notifications while the app is in the foreground is just an unnecessary impediment to the conversation.

It's all the more incomprehensible when Wire's website pitches it as a choice for serious and secure business type communications yet so many aspects of the app's usability seem designed to cater exclusively for the ten second attention span emoji-slinging generation.

Can you please add an option to have sound alerts when the app is in the foreground, so I can actually unglue my face from my laptop screen and get on with my life while waiting for replies?

Similar request mentioned here: #3165 (comment)