Subject: Re: bug#77496: [PATCH] Add 'ns-app-badge' to set macOS / GNUstep icon badge

From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 08:45:18 -0400

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 8:37 AM Po Lu <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Ship Mints <[email-masked]> writes:
>
> > GNUstep on Linux would do.
>
> I am very skeptical that these APIs are implemented in GNUstep to a
> greater degree of completion than mere stubs for compatibility with
> Cocoa programs.  Please send a screenshot or some other proof of an app
> "icon badge" being displayed under GNUstep.
>

No reason to be skeptical. The API is dead simple as is the implementation.

https://multixden.blogspot.com/2023/08/gnustep-now-has-badges.html
https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Headers/AppKit/NSDockTile.h#L65
https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gui/blob/fcfc643e3cacdb7b455629951481ead986cdd182/Source/NSDockTile.m#L122