[Feature Request] Notification badges on dock app icons

[Cantello]

In Cinnamon Desktop, apps that usually work with notification badges for unobtrusive indication of e.g. unread messages or ongoing processes (see screenshot below) do not show these badges. Tried with Mailspring, Discord & Gmail via nativefier. With Ubuntu/GNOME they do work.

My current configuration (some days ago) is as follows, in case it is important: https://termbin.com/qt8s

It would be great if these indicators could be implemented as in my regular workflow, notifications tend to be dismissed whereas icon badges stay visible.

[Belaial]

Been searching far and wide for a solution to this but can only find this feature request, hopefully this is something that can be implemented in the future. I think this will become more important now when apps like Teams have moved to a PWA (Progressive Web App) which does not have it's own application icon tracking notifications, so today if you are using Teams PWA you need to open it up now and then to see if you have unread messages, notifications are displayed in the regular Cinnamon notifications but since everything is shown there the Teams PWA notifications are not clearly visible like they would be if the PWA icon would display a counter for unread messages.

(Just using Teams as an example, this would also be very handy for other applications)

[Secret-chest]

Hope it's toggleable.

[Mahi]

Literally the only reason I switched away from Cinnamon. Windows has this, Mac has this, Gnome has this, Android has this, even my car has this! It's crazy to me that Cinnamon doesn't have it yet.

[kaz-49]

Bump
Would also be nice if they appeared flashing on other workspaces as well, like in windows. Makes handling notifications for lots of workspaces much easier.

[eisbehr]

This is a feature common across all the big contemporary desktop environments (across operating systems), applications simply assume this feature exists for notifying the user about changes. Implementing it should have elevated priority.

[Gr3q]

dash-to-dock has implementations for both the Unity API and a fallback where it counts the notifications associated with the app. I'd be happy to port them.

The problem is that we already have badges that show the open window count, so someone needs to come up with a way to show both of them I can't continue. I know dash-to-dock shows the window count with dots, I don't know how Windows does it.

[LunarWatcher]

Windows doesn't show the full count IIRC. If there's multiple windows, it shows a short of overlap-effect. Windows 11 apparently has a dot too, according to a quick Google search, but it isn't used to reflect the count. It just shows that there are multiple windows, not many, from what I can tell. I've never used Win11 though (and I have no desire to), so might be wrong. But there is only one dot for three windows in an image I found on google, so it seems unlikely that it's used to count

[eisbehr]

Windows 10 visually suggest a "stack" of windows with no number given.

Left when unselected, right when selected

[Secret-chest]

Another option would be a 3-dots icon in the bottom-right, or just moving the count there and styling it differently

[fredcw]

If the window count is a black circle on the top left, why can't the notification count be a red circle on the top right?

[dcolascione]

Just put the badge and window count in separate corners. Seems simple to me.

[Belaial]

Just put the badge and window count in separate corners. Seems simple to me.

Sounds like a good idea to me, also color code them? Blue for window stack and red for notification counter maybe? Hopefully the user could be allowed to change the color as well if it's not to much hassle, no developer myself so only coming with suggestions.

[Gr3q]

That...seems like a bad design for me, 2 badges on 1 icon? Also look at my taskbar, do you think it will fit?

[Gr3q]

Maybe the line could be changed to dots on the bottom?