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Task alert status #111

Open TurkeyMan opened 8 years ago

TurkeyMan commented 8 years ago

In Win7+, task buttons change colour and flash when the app enters some sort of alert state and wants user attention. It would be really awesome to duplicate this functionality if there are API's available to get this information from apps.

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

Yes there is but I haven't figured it out yet and this is the main bug that is holding back release.

TurkeyMan commented 8 years ago

Cool, look forward to it! Thanks again for your work!

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

Alright give the dev a whirl. Should display the notifications in the taskbar and in the thumbnails.

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

Hi TurkeyMan, have you had a chance to test this one yet?

TurkeyMan commented 8 years ago

I've been looking out for it, but I haven't seen it happen yet. The thing is, since I've never had it before on linux, I'm not sure what events should trigger it to occur :)

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

I know, I used pidgin to test. But you have to turn on the notifications. (google it)

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I've been looking out for it, but I haven't seen it happen yet. The thing is, since I've never had it before on linux, I'm not sure what events should trigger it to occur :) — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

TurkeyMan commented 8 years ago

I tried Pidgin; google talks about a 'libnotify' plugin, but I don't seem to have that, I have this one 'Message Notification', which I enabled and no matter how I configured it, I didn't see any sort of attention alert on the taskbar. I saw one option that says "Set window manager 'URGENT' hint". It didn't do anything, but I suspected it would be something like that... and if not, is there anything interest you can do with that?

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

Well those are settings I used to test. What theme are you using?

jake-phy commented 8 years ago

One more thing, can you check and make sure the option is enabled in the settings.