[UX] received text messages (SMS) reading

[premek]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When a text message is received by my phone a notification is displayed on my PC. Full text is displayed and I can read it but when for example I want to copy part of it or open a link that's in the message, I click on the notification and then "Send SMS" window is open.

Describe the solution you'd like I think this action should open a window with the received message or the window that is currently opened (Send SMS) should be changed to contain both a possibility to send messages (as it does) but also a list of received messages. Maybe make it look more like it does on phones with received messages on top with a possibility to respond.

System Details (please complete the following information):

• GSConnect version: 44
  • Installed from: extensions.gnome.org

[premek]

On another computer I have GSConnect 28 and when I click on the notification, this window opens, where I can copy the message text.

[andyholmes]

Previously this was fairly simple since only numerical phone numbers were supported, but became more complex when we added the support for e-mail addresses. For this to be fixed the replySms action will have to be updated to use some heuristics on the hint parameter:

https://github.com/GSConnect/gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect/blob/37994f2f12720d8adbe5c633210c930a2bbbaf67/src/service/plugins/sms.js#L359-L368

I think it might not be possible to do this reliably 100% of the time, but probably the common cases could be covered. Alternatively if the sms event is still supported by the telephony plugin it might be possible to leverage that information.

[premek]

how about just displaying the message from the notification in a window where you can copy it?

[andyholmes]

Sure, you could make the default just open a window, but whether that's a good idea I don't know.