Update green favicon only on notifications - option to disable favicon per-room
Created by: MicahZoltu
Summary:
Changing the favicon to green when new activity occurs is a great way to glance and see if I need open the tab. But this is currently tied to unread counts which makes it less than ideal for a room that I have set to "Announcements".
I only want to have the favicon turn green if I was actually notified of the message.
I really appreciate the simplification of the notification settings, they are much easier to understand now (compared to the previous Lurk button). However, it appears that there is no longer a way (or maybe there never was) to be in a channel, get notified of mentions and announcements, but not have the favicon change when people type in the channel.
I have quite a few Gitter channels open some of which are very high throughput. I want to stay in those channels both because I do sometimes use them and I want to receive announcements and be available for easy @mention. However, this results in my favicon always being green. I have some other channels for my own repositories that have almost no traffic but I really need to be notified if someone says something. I can turn on All notifications for those channels but if I miss the pop-up it means I miss the message because I don't have any persistent indicator (such as the favicon).
Ideally, the favicon would only change color if I was set to be notified about a message. It would not change color for messages that aren't set to notify me. This would give me a persistent notification icon in a place that is easy to glance at throughout the day.
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@Zoltu I summarized your post for easy reading.
I think this is a great suggestion! A separate option would be ideal to toggle the favicon changing per-room but even just switching this out to "only messages I was notified of count" sounds like nice change.
Just to point out that this relates to people getting unread emails for rooms that are set to "Announcements" which are also tied to unread counts. "Announcements" still tracks unread counts because there was some feedback from users that they wanted to glance and see if they had enough time to catch up in that room.
