Unread count badge on the dock icon does not work with mattermost 1.3

[teetrinkers]

I don't get an unread count badge on the dock icon. There is an unread badge in Mattermost itself next to the channel name.

I think it is because I'm running the Mattermost dev-build (currently 4760, Wed Dec 9 17:56:03 UTC 2015). I checked using an old build of Matterfront, which is from before the changes to React and Electron 0.35, and it also has the problem.

This happens when running Matterfront using npm run start as well as in the built app. I did some debugging with console.log() and as far as I can tell, the MutationObserver in mattermost-observer.js is never called.

This is on OS X 10.11.1.

[geekytime]

Hopefully I didn't break the notifications as part of my refactoring. As with the developer config, I was kind of hoping to work in my fork while I was making more destructive changes but they were merged a bit early.

Anyway, I've got support for multiple teams working in my fork. They're little buttons on a sidebar like in Slack. My next order of business is to overhaul the notifications system to better support multiple teams.

Once I've got everything tidied up and working properly I'll submit a PR back to upstream.

[teetrinkers]

I think they did some layout changes in 1.3. It seems to work if I change the observed element in mattermost-observer.js to ".sidebar--left": var list = document.querySelector('.sidebar--left');

I'm out of time today, but I think I can submit a pull-request tomorrow.

[teetrinkers]

Changing the observed element to ".sidebar--left" works, but I found that for some reason, the badge lags one event behind:

• User A sends me a direct message. The dock icon bounces but does not display an icon badge.
• I do any action in the sidebar, e.g. scrolling, to generate a new observer message. The dock icon now shows a badge.

I tested that the lagging badge is fixed in #67.

[lloeki]

Changing the observed element to ".sidebar--left" works

Thanks @teetrinkers !