Notification Badge on Taskbar Programs

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I’m not sure how to call the feature i’m looking for. I’m Using Plasma 6.1 for about two months now and everything is really nice! But somehow I just realized today, that apps on the taskbar don’t show notifications. I don
t mean the popups on the bottom right corner (these work), but like these litte badges with a number (i searched the web and found that plasma does not have this). But the icons also don’t change color, blink or something like that. Is there something I can do to get feedback of that kind? For example if i get an email or Message that the icon of the program which received it, gives some kind of visual feedback?

greetings Polle

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It should be an option in the settings:

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I am not sure if your icon or Plasma theming affects this or not.

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For reference of what that setting looks like in practice:

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The catch on this topic is that each application has to specifically support showing a counter on its task manager icon, not just support showing system notifications. An open feature request and discussion about making that easier for app developers can be checked out here: 367086 – Expose Notification badges via a nice framework API to allow apps to easily adopt it

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@claydoh Just found it, the option is even switched on. Iam using the default Plasma Breeze twilight global theme. Unfortunately i cannot judge whether kubuntu is doing something wierd in this case.

@johnandmegh Oh thanks for the insight! Can you tell me the name of a Program which has this implemented. Perhaps I just tried ones, that don’t have that (gajim, dino, thunderbird)

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I get the badges on kmail and neochat, for example.

I think the protocol is something that Canonical originally invented for Ubuntu’s previous Unity desktop, but by now Plasma may be the only desktop that still uses it.

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neochat does have these badges! Looks like just none of the programs i use, have them. :frowning:

The Badges are a nice bonus, but actually the blinking or some kind of visual feedback on the icon would be nice.

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The Badges are a nice bonus, but actually the blinking or some kind of visual feedback on the icon would be nice.

If a window sets the request attention flag, it’ll be highlighted in the task bar. But again, this is something the app needs to opt into (unless it’s a case where Plasma knows that attention is required, e.g. the app opened a new window but focus-stealing prevention is preventing it from taking over focus).

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I dug a little bit deeper into this. It can also be dependent of the packet. I mostly use Flatpaks, but for some other reason I installed the snap package of Skype next to the flatpak version and realized that the snap version has a blinking taskbar but the flatpak version doesn’t. Perhaps there is some setting that needs to be set via flatseal (I did not see one at a first look).