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Android Messages as a Cross-platform Desktop App
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New message badge count #375

Open oparada1988 opened 2 years ago

oparada1988 commented 2 years ago

Would be cool if you could implement a badge count for new messages like discord does.

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OrangeDrangon commented 2 years ago

I am strictly not uninterested in this (as in I will consider proposals of art and the like). I recall we may have had this in the past and on many systems the numbers were hard to read so I settled on a dot. It is also hard to track the exact number of unread messages to the same granularity that discord can since I would need to parse it out of the DOM most likely.

oparada1988 commented 2 years ago

I am strictly not uninterested in this (as in I will consider proposals of art and the like). I recall we may have had this in the past and on many systems the numbers were hard to read so I settled on a dot. It is also hard to track the exact number of unread messages to the same granularity that discord can since I would need to parse it out of the DOM most likely.

Wow, thanks for the fast reply, I understand and thanks for the explanation. You can close this :-)

OrangeDrangon commented 2 years ago

That was not a dismissal. I meant to imply I was open to it. I just meant to invite discussion about it and hopefully someone would be interested in making some art so we can try it out since that is not my thing. Sorry for any confusion :)

oparada1988 commented 2 years ago

No problem! Wish I could help but im a brick when it comes to coding, Hopefully someone talented can fill in my gap! lol

jylertones commented 1 year ago

@OrangeDrangon I know that on MacOS - many apps can have an ambiguous unread indicator that just has a dot. I'm not super familiar with Electron, but perhaps this could work at least on MacOS as a proxy for the dot that shows on the browser tab that Messages has already?

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Jon8RFC commented 1 year ago

It's not as clean-looking as a little addition to the tray icon itself, but what if it flashed back and forth between the numeral and the normal tray icon? That would make it more legible as a larger size while still showing what the tray app is, as it flashes back and forth. https://github.com/OrangeDrangon/android-messages-desktop/issues/400