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Add dynamic task counter to icon #466

Open digitalethics opened 3 years ago

digitalethics commented 3 years ago

I think it would be great to add a task counter to permanently show the relevant or total number of tasks in the upper right corner of the icon. Both Planner (elementary OS) and plasma-applet-todolist allow to display the total number of tasks. The Telegram desktop application does it too but I find it much more useful with an actual task management software.

If implemented, a more granular control should be possible:

If toggled on, a toggle below the first toggle is automatically activated with the following two options:

Planner:

planner_task counter

plasma-applet-todolist:

plasma-applet-todolist_task counter

diegogangl commented 3 years ago

This should be a plugin (and hopefully don't add any complicated dependencies).

nekohayo commented 3 years ago

Someone needs to find out what are the "popular" (yet non-standard...) desktop APIs to achieve this. There is no such functionality in GNOME (there was one in Ubuntu's dock, Elementary/Pantheon's, etc. but I have no idea what they are).

nekohayo commented 3 years ago

A potential source of inspiration could be Geary, which does this in a way that works with dash-to-panel, at least. I have no idea how standard or not it is.