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Allow us to turn of flashing taskbar notifications

Flashing taskbar notifications are a bit annoying, and it would be nice to have the option to turn off that flashing (while keeping popup notifications enabled).

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  • Gerhard Wessels commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This flashing icon is infuriating. If it blinked 2 or 3 times and then stopped fine, but it just doesn't stop and it DEMANDS my attention.

    I am a developer and this type of distraction is very disruptive.

    An overlay on the taskbar icon that shows new messages is all it need.

  • Oliver Salzburg commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be nice if Teams would simply respect default OS behavior and not force flash the taskbar button even if ForegroundFlashCount is set to 0.

  • Scott commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please prioritize this. Right now, if I want to have any notifications at all, my only option is to get two visual artifacts per notification: a banner, which is not integrated into the Windows 10 Action Center, and then the Teams window flashing in the Taskbar. I want the banner notification, integrated into Action Center, but once that's done, there's no need to have the Taskbar icon flashing at me. The flashing turns Teams into a distraction engine. Electron is not an excuse for a first-party Microsoft app not to properly integrate into Windows 10.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The flashing is very annoying/distracting and adds to work stress.
    please add option to disable.

  • Matt Oswald commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For Prash, if I'm AFK and I miss the pop-up, then that's on me. I can always check Teams to see if there's activity I've missed, but I get a _lot_ of activity and the taskbar seems to be flashing all the time. It's very distracting.

  • Brendan Batchelder commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please fix the flashing icon bug. If the application gains focus after a notification is displayed, the icon does not need to flash. I have clearly acknowledged the notification. Don't make me break my workflow and alt-tab again to make the icon stop flashing. Incredibly annoying.

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