Notification feedback

[lloeki]

• Badge on dock or tray icon
• Bounce dock icon
• Settings (because it could get obnoxious)

[lloeki]

• Is there anything native like badge icons on Windows?
• What are the idiomatic ways on Linux DEs?

[Juburin]

For notifications on Windows maybe setOverlayIcon could be used https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/api/browser-window.md#winsetoverlayiconoverlay-description-windows-7. Also on Windows the webview notifications aren't working, but I don't know if this is an electron issue.

[lloeki]

I think that's a regression, notifications did work with an older build on Windows.

setOverlayIconmight do the trick. Any example of apps that use this feature? Screenshots welcome.

[Juburin]

I can't give an example, but I found a similar question (with screenshot): electron/electron#3148

[lloeki]

Nevermind, it was a false positive, it never worked on Windows. See electron/electron#262

[johnthedebs]

Just noticed that you linked to an issue I opened on the Electron repo. Here's a gist of the solution I ended up with to provide badges across OS X and Windows if you're curious: https://gist.github.com/johnthedebs/c22a04fcd08e598e69b8

[daemongh]

Neat, I'll look into adding that into the code I have for the badges.

[daemongh]

That worked great, I've added it in PR #18.

Screenshot:

[lloeki]

Thanks for the screenshot, this looks nice.

[lloeki]

PR #18 merged, we now have Windows and OS X covered. Linux remains.

[enahum]

@lloeki have you tried to click on the notification when the app in minimised on OSX? I found out that the app changes the views inside mattermost but the app itself doesn't get restored as the browser does.

Any thoughts?