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Subject:    [plasmashell] [Bug 343632] New: DockManager support (or similar interface) for displaying badges, pr
From:       Thomas Backman <exscape+kde () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-01-31 19:35:32
Message-ID: bug-343632-17878 () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343632

            Bug ID: 343632
           Summary: DockManager support (or similar interface) for
                    displaying badges, progress bars etc. on icons
           Product: plasmashell
           Version: 5.2.0
          Platform: unspecified
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons-only Task Manager
          Assignee: hein@kde.org
          Reporter: exscape+kde@gmail.com

It would be nice if the icons-only task manager supported adding badges,
showing progress bars etc. on task icons.

Badges are commonly used to show the number of unread messages or similar for
e-mail/chat programs, or the number of unseen notifications for other types of
programs such as download managers; progress bars speak for themselves, and can
be nice for e.g. download managers or perhaps computation-heavy programs.

Several docks such as awn, Docky and cairo-dock support this, often via the
DockManager DBus specification, which unfortunately doesn't seem to very *well*
specified or documented.
There are several plugins for software such as Thunderbird and Pidgin to use
this API to display information.

Having support for at least a subset of this API (for badges and perhaps
progress bars via DBus) would be nice.

Reproducible: Always

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