Add per channel visual-only notification option

Feature Proposal
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Expected behavior

Group chats can generate a lot of messages, so here is my preferred configuration:

  • one-one chats → visual+sound notifications
  • group chats → visual-only notifications

Actual behavior

With current Android Delta Chat client 2.43.0, I can only do:

  • one-one chats → visual+sound notifications (via default config)
  • group chats → no notification (via per channel “Mute Notifications” option)

Side note

The “Mute Notifications” option should be renamed “Disable Notifications”.
As it does not just mute (= no sound), it also remove the visual notification itself.

Being able to do visual-only notifs only for group-chats is the last feature missing for me to replace Signal & Telegram with Delta Chat.

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In Signal & Telegram, they do it by letting the user customize the default notif settings, channel by channel.

(just to be extra clear, what I mean by “visual-only notif” is a full notif but with no ringtone and no vibration)

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I would love to see batched notifications on all platforms. This could especially come in handy when one or more of your peers is pressing enter all the time as they type in 5 words at a time. Maybe a kind of buffering would also help. I.e., not generate a notification after at least 1 minute has elapsed since the given person has typed in their last message.