Aren't we talking protocol here? UI can be argued elsewhere, to be honest...
Anyway, protocol-wise, why isn't this the job of the notification client? (Mobile notification clients do it that way fwiw) J. Leclanche On 16 February 2015 at 20:52, Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 February 2015 at 10:18, Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> About the? It's also very low for a number of people. I can also be >> there to notify about the number of new podcasts episodes to read, the >> number of unread articles in my offline reader app, the number of unread >> messages in my chat application, > > > In all of these cases (email, podcasts, RSS reader, chat), I have used > applications which internally show some kind of unread/unseen count, and in > all four categories, the number quickly gets higher than I have any > intention of doing anything about other than clicking 'Mark all read'. I > have a suspicion that this is partly what 'killed' RSS (in popular use) - > feed readers were designed as if people would read every item, and then it > felt like a chore to keep up with it. > > I'm not saying there are no possible use cases for a numeric badge, but my > experience is that most of the obvious use cases for it are not great UI > design. > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
