Notification badges for app switcher

Bug #1921883 reported by Woodrow Shigeru
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Expired
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

The Alt+Tab application switcher could benefit from a colored notification badge. This *could* be a number with the amount of notifications, but honestly, a simple boolean "has / has no badge" would suffice already.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-140.144-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-140-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.23
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 30 11:43:33 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: No
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:5a84] (rev 0b) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Lenovo Celeron N3350/Pentium N4200/Atom E3900 Series Integrated Graphics Controller [17aa:3801]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-12-20 (830 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0bda:0821 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b579 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: LENOVO 80TF
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-140-generic root=UUID=0f8de3b2-c66e-4eb6-ae0a-f2650fc5b9b5 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/27/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: 1MCN43WW X64
dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.board.name: LNVNB161216
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: NO DPK
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: Lenovo V110-14IAP
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr1MCN43WWX64:bd11/27/2017:svnLENOVO:pn80TF:pvrLenovoV110-14IAP:rvnLENOVO:rnLNVNB161216:rvrNODPK:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLenovoV110-14IAP:
dmi.product.family: V110-14IAP
dmi.product.name: 80TF
dmi.product.version: Lenovo V110-14IAP
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.101-2~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 20.0.8-0ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.8
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

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Woodrow Shigeru (woodrowshigeru) wrote :
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report.

Please check the issue is still present in newer versions of GNOME. If so then report it to the developers at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues and tell us the new issue ID.

affects: xorg (Ubuntu) → unity (Ubuntu)
affects: unity (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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