I recently switched to Linux. Before that, I used Windows for a long time. I’m used to having avatar badges for each browser window that’s open for a specific account.
I installed the latest Fedora and Plasma, and there are no badges above the Chrome icons with user avatars. All opened windows for different accounts looks all the same. BTW, Google Chat also doesn’t show a badge if there are new messages. Is this a common problem? And is there any way to fix it?
Thanks.
Badges?!?! weeeeee doan neeeeee no stiiiiinking BADGES!!!
Hi, sorry, welcome.
the only badge features i’m aware of in plasma are if you set the task manager to group icons it will feature a badge showing how many widows of that application are open, and then there is a badge to indicate (and mute) audio that is playing in an application which can be disabled in settings.
Thanks for the response.
I’ve already noticed that. I’m not exactly new to computers; I started with Red Hat 0.9. And I still remember what the first X window looked like. But that’s not the point. Seeing which account the browser is open under in the taskbar is simply convenient and saves time. And showing that there are unread messages in the Google chat and how many there are is also convenient. Is this something that is planned to be improved in the future, or is “we don’t need this” the developers’ principled position?
I tried using the “–class=” and “user --profile-directory=” options and everything else – it doesn’t work the way I need it to.
From googling around it seems like this feature does exist in general, it’s just that applications need to actively support it and I have never seen it myself. (Notification Badge on Taskbar Programs)
I tried using the “–class=” and “user --profile-directory=” options and everything else – it doesn’t work the way I need it to.
I personally use this to have two firefox profiles running. Using .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications/ I can set a different application Icon via class for the second profile instance to easily differentiate them.
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As an option, developers could add something like “Change icon” or “Add/Update static badge” to the right-click menu on the icon in the taskbar. This would allow me to either enter a short text (1-2 letters) or select an icon from a set. This would simply help me distinguish between similar open tabs. This is a suggestion in case it’s technically difficult to retrieve the user’s avatar from Chrome. This is just an idea.
It would significantly simplify things. The desktop itself is simply excellent. I think, without exaggeration, it’s the best for Linux. I like many of its features much more than those in Windows. If this feature to show badge were improved, this desktop would be simply unparalleled.
A couple of applications I use that do support it and use it to provide an “unread count” on the taskbar icon:
Notification count badge is a thing as @amilias mentioned, but it doesn’t seem to be working, at least for me on Arch it does not, but it did before for sure.
Never mind, the script that I was using to test this needed to keep running for the counter to stay visible lol.
The Chrome profile badges however is not a thing that is supported yet, but is tracked by this wish-list bug report https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472737
I mean something like this. The ability to set a custom badge. We have a top badge. We could add a bottom one through the right mouse button menu for every each opened app separately.
P.S. Just in case, I officially waive any copyrights or intellectual property rights to this idea. As long as everyone benefits.
Yep, it’s exactly what the report I linked is about 
just needs someone interested on implementing it.