Feature Request: Show Notification Badges

[brijazz]

Having the icons show notification badges (much as they do in the standard system Dock) would be fantastic!

[stavfx]

Is this technically feasible? I'd love to see this feature. The only reason I keep the dock visible is for the notification badges

[EthanSK]

If you can find me an official apple api to get notifications then sure

[stavfx]

I don't know the first thing about macos development, so I don't know if it's possible to get a handle on another app's NSApplication object or how. But if it is possible, looks like NSApplication.dockTile.badgeLabel is what we're interested in.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsdocktile/1524433-badgelabel

[brijazz]

This might be nothing of use, but when I had a Mac with a TouchBar I used to show notifications in the bar by polling apps' dock badges with AppleScript, like so: tell application "System Events" tell process "Dock" set badgeNumber to value of attribute "AXStatusLabel" of UI element "NetNewsWire" of list 1 end tell end tell The script returns the value indicated in the Dock’s badge.

[stavfx]

oh wow this is great, I hacked this into a simple script together with xbar (https://xbarapp.com/) and this does exactly what I need.
Not as pretty as this project tho :)

[fenneclabs]

oh wow this is great, I hacked this into a simple script together with xbar (https://xbarapp.com/) and this does exactly what I need. Not as pretty as this project tho :)

Could you share your script please :)

[bauerp]

I'm no developer but you may be able to look at the source code for the app "Doll", which has the red badge count option: https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

[fenneclabs]

I'm no developer but you may be able to look at the source code for the app "Doll", which has the red badge count option: https://github.com/xiaogdgenuine/Doll

thx, I'll use Doll app instead!