option to disable unread indicator in page/app title

[selfisekai]

Your use case

What would you like to do?

opt-out of the behavior introduced in matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk#10096

Why would you like to do it?

it's distracting me. I'm in rooms that by design are living their own life, like ones related to various projects.

I also know I'm not the only one.

How would you like to achieve it?

new option in preferences or appearance settings

Have you considered any alternatives?

opt-in setting, removing behavior at all. opt-out seems the most reasonable though.

Additional context

No response

[MaeIsBad]

If I'm in a big room with over 5000 people like the nixos room this indicator is completely useless, since it's constantly on, it simply serves as a constant false notification dot, which makes me constantly anxious, and tricks me into checking element every 5 seconds, despite not receiving any new messages relevant to me.

I am genuinely unable to use element-web/desktop because of this feature

[guilhermepiccoli]

Thanks a lot for this! Quite distracting indeed, I'm surprised the feature was added as a default setting with no way of opting-out. For me, it'd make sense to have the opposite: have it as an opt-in feature.

But anyway, having a way to disable it is already pretty good - until then, I'm keeping the old version of Element pinned here heh

Thanks again for all involved in Element =)

[ThiefMaster]

Maybe it could be linked to rooms where you have message notifications enabled? Those are usually the ones where you care about unread messages...

For example I mainly use Matrix/Element as a messenger for me and my family members, and a few colleagues - those are channels for which I have notifications enabled for every message.

However, I'm also in a bunch of other channels like "Synapse Admins" and I honestly do not care about activity in there - so I do not want those channels to trigger the activity indicator!

[selfisekai]

if you have notifications enabled (outside of the ones for mentions and keywords), you already have a counter for them

[guilhermepiccoli]

Hi folks, just want to know if there was any news on this one? I'm stuck with an older version of Element due to that, I cannot focus with the bar title changing all the time heh

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: Sorry, I just noticed the labels and a bit confused. Is it an enhancement?!

I might be wrong in my understanding, but seems after this behavior was introduced, it broke some users usability (like mine), so could it be tagged as an issue or needs-bugfix, etc? Thanks again!

[MaeIsBad]

As a horrible workaround you can start using the desktop app or pin the tab to hide the title

[guilhermepiccoli]

As a horrible workaround you can start using the desktop app or pin the tab to hide the title

Well...I am using the Desktop application heh
It changes the title in the application entry on my window list.

What I could do as workaround (and it's not great IMO) is to "confine" this in kdocker-like app and put it on notification area...but I'd be so happy if we could just have an opt-out for this "feature", seems a bit rough to me just pushing this change to users heh

[nukeop]

My issue #26219 has been marked as a duplicate, so I'll just add here that I don't want this to have a simple opt-in/disable option, I want this feature to still be present but only for rooms I selected, for example by respecting the "Notification options" setting. For some rooms, I want them to add the asterisk to the tab's name if I'm mentioned there, some should do so on every message, and some shouldn't do it at all.