Feature request: Phosh feedbackd vibration support

[purplebar0]

As this is the de facto XMPP client for Linux phones, it would be very useful if incoming messages and calls could vibrate.

Additionally, while GNOME Chats is a mobile-first chat client originally developed by Purism and it does support vibrations, its XMPP support is lacking since it's based on libpurple, and lurch has been broken for long enough that it makes OMEMO unusable on it.

[purplebar0]

Update: I was going to test the notification-sound plugin, but the current building issue didn't let me. While waiting for a patch, I tested Dino+ and noticed vibrations.

Now, vibrations didn't occur in the lock screen, which seems to be a Phosh issue, but it does seem to confirm that the notification plugin can in turn vibrate the phone.

[Pigpog]

Phosh triggers feedback on behalf of all applications. All it takes is a notification using one of the recognized categories. In my opinion, this is the optimal way for feedbackd to be implemented.

In my experience, using the notification-sound plugin enables Phosh to work this way. It looks like the build issue you refer to is resolved, give it a try.

Now, due to a lack of a standardized notification category for incoming calls, Dino is unable to trigger any feedback for calls. If you ignore the standard though and implement a call category in both Dino and Phosh yourself, Dino rings and vibrates gloriously.

Duplicate of #1142