[UIFe, FFe] Provide Unity Launcher API

[Pavel Rojtberg]

provide a DBus service for the Unity launcher API:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI

and implement display the count, progress, ugrency properties.
This way Unity applications relying on these APIs continue to work with Gnome3 as expected.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The changes are ready and being reviewed upstream on
https://github.com/micheleg/dash-to-dock/pull/590

We believe it's an important feature for our desktop and would like to integrate the changes in artful so we are requesting a FFe and an UIFe for the github proposed changes

The github url includes a screenshot of the change
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3677105/30074008-23a5de62-9270-11e7-91e1-19ebc7b7dade.png

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

This won't be reflected in the desktop guide until 18.04, so no problem from a docs/translation POV.

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

In the screenshot in comment #1, Does the color of the emblem have to be red? It does not match very well with the rest of the color theme.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Looks like it's not yet finished upstream review... is it likely to miss the beta? I'm worried about continuing to introduce new features late on. What do you think?

[Andrea Azzarone (azzar1)]

The emblem is implemented in pure CSS you can easily change the shape and
the colour.

Il 22 set 2017 08:51, "Amr Ibrahim" <email address hidden> ha scritto:

> In the screenshot in comment #1, Does the color of the emblem have to be
> red? It does not match very well with the rest of the color theme.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713712
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> Title:
> [UIFe, FFe] Provide Unity Launcher API
>
> Status in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> provide a DBus service for the Unity launcher API:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/LauncherAPI
>
> and implement display the count, progress, ugrency properties.
> This way Unity applications relying on these APIs continue to work with
> Gnome3 as expected.
>
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I would land the changes in artful now/on sunday|monday (before beta), I've been using them without issues for some days and the code got some first reviews. I agree it's late but the changes make quite an usability difference and it would be a shame to have 17.10 without that feature

[Iain Lane (laney)]

I'm not super happy with this landing at this point, but on balance it's probably worth it. Please upload now if you can.

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

So Unity QuickList will work with the dock?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock - 0.6

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gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (0.6) artful; urgency=medium

  * Badges and progress bar on dock. Thanks Andrea (LP: #1713712)

 -- Didier Roche <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:09:30 -0400

[JaSauders (jasauders)]

Question - should we see the unread message indicator, as is, right now in dock v0.6?

Currently I'm logged in to Telegram on my 17.10 laptop with Telegram running. I installed the .deb for v0.6 dock:

||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii gnome-shell-ex 0.6 all Ubuntu Dock for GNOME Shell

I have a desktop system, Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity, off to the side also running Telegram.

The laptop (Ubuntu 17.10) does not display the unread count indicator on the Telegram icon within the dock.
The desktop (Ubuntu 16.04) however does.
Telegram is fully up to date on both systems, and both systems are fully up to date.

I need to test more applications but I kept hearing that Telegram should be supported, however I'm not seeing any indication it is on 17.17 + v0.6 of the Ubuntu Dock. Can anybody else confirm their findings?